1 00:00:01,710 --> 00:00:06,477 (cool opening noir music) 2 00:00:47,010 --> 00:00:48,697 - Hello, one and all! 3 00:00:48,697 --> 00:00:49,530 Welcome back to another thrilling episode 4 00:00:49,530 --> 00:00:51,768 of "Dimension 20: Mentopolis." (fun, jazzy music) 5 00:00:51,768 --> 00:00:53,520 I am your humble GM, Brennan Lee Mulligan. 6 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,130 With me, as always, are our Prefrontal PIs. 7 00:00:56,130 --> 00:00:59,667 Say hi, Prefrontal PIs. - [Everyone] Hi, Prefrontal PIs! 8 00:00:59,667 --> 00:01:02,580 - I'm going to be able to say it right eventually. 9 00:01:02,580 --> 00:01:04,348 - Here are Unique New Yorkers. 10 00:01:04,348 --> 00:01:06,373 (group laughing) 11 00:01:06,373 --> 00:01:08,455 - But the cacophony, it rubs the edges 12 00:01:08,455 --> 00:01:09,921 off of it all, so it all sounds- 13 00:01:09,921 --> 00:01:12,746 - Especially the part where Freddie doesn't even do it. 14 00:01:12,746 --> 00:01:15,305 - Listen, I know that there's a guy sitting over there. 15 00:01:15,305 --> 00:01:16,425 He's trying to mix the audio. 16 00:01:16,425 --> 00:01:17,258 I'm going to make his life 17 00:01:17,258 --> 00:01:18,399 just a little easier. - Wow, charitable. 18 00:01:18,399 --> 00:01:19,232 You're a good person. 19 00:01:19,232 --> 00:01:21,060 - There's a way we all get through Auld Lang Syne 20 00:01:21,060 --> 00:01:23,435 every New Year, it's just by kind of mumbling. 21 00:01:23,435 --> 00:01:26,060 (all beautifully mumbling their way through Auld Land Syne) 22 00:01:26,060 --> 00:01:29,243 (all beautifully mumbling their way through Auld Land Syne) 23 00:01:29,243 --> 00:01:30,983 [everyone] ♪ to mind ♪ 24 00:01:30,983 --> 00:01:34,350 - Speaking of mind, welcome back to Mentopolis, folks. 25 00:01:34,350 --> 00:01:38,467 Last we left off, our wonderful investigators 26 00:01:38,467 --> 00:01:41,895 had just watched a section of a synaptic highway 27 00:01:41,895 --> 00:01:44,963 crumble and fall, crushing the car underneath 28 00:01:44,963 --> 00:01:48,728 just in time to save the life of Conrad Schintz, 29 00:01:48,728 --> 00:01:52,482 our newsie at the center of a lot of hubbub 30 00:01:52,482 --> 00:01:54,693 in a busy and dangerous town. 31 00:01:54,693 --> 00:01:56,692 That's right, folks, we're back in Mentopolis, 32 00:01:56,692 --> 00:02:01,435 the mind of the big guy, AKA Elias Hodge, a junior scientist 33 00:02:01,435 --> 00:02:04,482 who we have not met and will probably never meet, 34 00:02:04,482 --> 00:02:07,427 because we are him and he is us! 35 00:02:07,427 --> 00:02:09,710 (Siobhan and Trapp making sounds of mock horror) 36 00:02:09,710 --> 00:02:11,710 In our inaugural episode last week, (fun percussion music) 37 00:02:11,710 --> 00:02:14,400 we met Conrad Schintz, the conscience. 38 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,977 We met Anastasia "A" Tension, the attention. 39 00:02:18,977 --> 00:02:23,340 We met Detective Hunch Curio, AKA curiosity. 40 00:02:23,340 --> 00:02:25,500 Imelda Pulse, or impulse. 41 00:02:25,500 --> 00:02:29,089 Danny Fucks, the pleasure center of the brain. 42 00:02:29,089 --> 00:02:31,230 - [Danielle] It never gets old! - Hits every time, baby. 43 00:02:31,230 --> 00:02:32,391 - You did this. 44 00:02:32,391 --> 00:02:33,974 (group laughing) 45 00:02:33,974 --> 00:02:34,833 You did this. 46 00:02:35,670 --> 00:02:39,570 And of course, The Fix, AKA hyperfixation. 47 00:02:39,570 --> 00:02:41,220 All of these people came together 48 00:02:41,220 --> 00:02:43,570 in the limbic system of the brain 49 00:02:43,570 --> 00:02:45,630 down near the red light district 50 00:02:45,630 --> 00:02:49,080 where they met up at Sugah's Speakeasy. 51 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,818 A bunch of events surrounded our arrival, 52 00:02:52,818 --> 00:02:57,737 a murder of one Mr. Norrell Ojiccle 53 00:02:57,737 --> 00:03:01,667 at the Cerebell Pacific Telecommunications Company 54 00:03:01,667 --> 00:03:05,070 and a shattered Synaptic Switchboard 55 00:03:05,070 --> 00:03:08,718 that was found by A. Tension working her beat. 56 00:03:08,718 --> 00:03:11,594 We saw a hiring of one Detective Hunch Curio by Imelda Pulse 57 00:03:11,594 --> 00:03:14,735 We saw a hiring of one Detective Hunch Curio by Imelda Pulse 58 00:03:14,735 --> 00:03:18,325 to find the kid who had led her 59 00:03:18,325 --> 00:03:22,108 to a sort of mild kleptomaniacal impulse 60 00:03:22,108 --> 00:03:24,544 just to grab a packet of papers, but one that seems 61 00:03:24,544 --> 00:03:28,050 to have way more consequences that anticipated, 62 00:03:28,050 --> 00:03:29,850 all leading to the pleasure center of the brain 63 00:03:29,850 --> 00:03:34,848 as The Fix, a sort of muscle for hire 64 00:03:34,848 --> 00:03:38,810 used by some of the bigwigs here in Mentopolis, 65 00:03:38,810 --> 00:03:43,752 to get rid of anything distracting from the goal at hand. 66 00:03:43,752 --> 00:03:45,575 Strange things are afoot in the city. 67 00:03:45,575 --> 00:03:50,280 A murder, as well as a sudden shattering of a highway. 68 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,982 The cords are down, and some strange thing's afoot 69 00:03:54,982 --> 00:03:59,976 with a packet stolen by a sudden impulse and a key, 70 00:03:59,976 --> 00:04:04,851 a key that can allow some heroes 71 00:04:04,851 --> 00:04:09,851 here in Mentopolis to speak directly to the big guy himself. 72 00:04:10,110 --> 00:04:13,458 We come back now in this moment of sudden chaos. 73 00:04:13,458 --> 00:04:17,463 Conrad, you hit the bricks, and as you do so, 74 00:04:17,463 --> 00:04:18,508 what do any of you do in this moment 75 00:04:18,508 --> 00:04:20,400 as you all sort of surged out of the speakeasy together? 76 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:22,680 - I feel like Dan Fucks is looking back at his club 77 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:24,810 and being like, is the roof- 78 00:04:24,810 --> 00:04:27,660 I just got repairs! 79 00:04:27,660 --> 00:04:29,925 I want to check the integrity of my club, please. 80 00:04:29,925 --> 00:04:32,430 - [Brennan] Give me a snoop check. 81 00:04:32,430 --> 00:04:34,950 - [Freddie] Seven plus two, nine. - You look around. 82 00:04:34,950 --> 00:04:38,285 Most of the damage was caused by the horde of cops 83 00:04:38,285 --> 00:04:40,797 that came in here earlier and stole all your shit, 84 00:04:41,638 --> 00:04:43,687 but on a nine snoop, 85 00:04:43,687 --> 00:04:47,730 looking at this very small, kind of dingy building, 86 00:04:47,730 --> 00:04:48,660 you look around and see 87 00:04:48,660 --> 00:04:51,123 all these boarded up spaces around here. 88 00:04:51,990 --> 00:04:53,349 You could have a marquee. 89 00:04:53,349 --> 00:04:56,278 There's that old theater that got boarded up. 90 00:04:56,278 --> 00:04:57,111 So you're just sort of looking 91 00:04:57,111 --> 00:05:00,222 at all the rain and water damage from these places 92 00:05:00,222 --> 00:05:03,420 that used to be full blown pleasure centers in the brain 93 00:05:03,420 --> 00:05:05,880 that are now all boarded up. 94 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:07,371 - This neighborhood sucks now! 95 00:05:07,371 --> 00:05:09,312 (Brennan laughing) 96 00:05:09,312 --> 00:05:11,951 - There is a smashed car with Conrad in it, right? 97 00:05:11,951 --> 00:05:15,660 I feel like Detective Hunch rushes toward the car 98 00:05:15,660 --> 00:05:18,503 and takes a look inside. - [Brennan] Hell yeah. 99 00:05:18,503 --> 00:05:21,870 Go ahead and give me a snap snoop check. 100 00:05:21,870 --> 00:05:23,423 - A snap snoop? - [Brennan] A snap snoop. 101 00:05:24,692 --> 00:05:26,310 - Okay. 102 00:05:26,310 --> 00:05:28,380 That is an eight plus one for nine. 103 00:05:28,380 --> 00:05:33,290 - You recognize two of the crushed goons within the car 104 00:05:33,290 --> 00:05:36,818 as being enforcers of the Avaricci family. 105 00:05:36,818 --> 00:05:38,888 - It's the Avaricci family. - Oh god. 106 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:41,220 - Which has been sort of running- 107 00:05:41,220 --> 00:05:43,410 - What was it about their taste? (squelching noise) 108 00:05:43,410 --> 00:05:44,985 - I'd know that taste anywhere. 109 00:05:44,985 --> 00:05:46,350 That's Avaricci for sure, (more squelching) 110 00:05:46,350 --> 00:05:47,670 and it's fresh. - [Brennan] All of you watch this detective 111 00:05:47,670 --> 00:05:48,955 just drinking blood. 112 00:05:48,955 --> 00:05:50,004 (players laughing) 113 00:05:50,004 --> 00:05:50,966 - Yeah, for sure. 114 00:05:50,966 --> 00:05:52,200 (players laughing) 115 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,090 - You want to have a little more? 116 00:05:54,090 --> 00:05:56,215 - I just had be sure. (even more squelching) 117 00:05:56,215 --> 00:05:57,831 Yeah, that's Avaricci. (players laughing) 118 00:05:57,831 --> 00:06:01,290 - Conrad, someone just tried to kill you, 119 00:06:01,290 --> 00:06:05,095 and I think that something's not adding up here. 120 00:06:05,095 --> 00:06:08,100 You are, to your estimation, (typewriter clacking, stamp) 121 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:11,780 a street urchin vagabond newsie kid. 122 00:06:11,780 --> 00:06:15,537 The idea that a group of adult gangsters 123 00:06:15,537 --> 00:06:19,406 would've been looking to do harm to you is not something 124 00:06:19,406 --> 00:06:22,448 you experience normally, very out of the ordinary. 125 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:26,740 - I don't usually ask for help, but... 126 00:06:28,953 --> 00:06:30,330 Do any of you know what's happening? 127 00:06:30,330 --> 00:06:32,970 - Can I... approach? 128 00:06:32,970 --> 00:06:34,350 - [Brennan] Yeah, absolutely. 129 00:06:34,350 --> 00:06:37,200 - Trying to be non-threatening, which is difficult for me. 130 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:38,726 - Conrad (laughing) screams. 131 00:06:38,726 --> 00:06:40,551 (group laughing) 132 00:06:40,551 --> 00:06:43,303 - Probably the right call, honestly. 133 00:06:43,303 --> 00:06:46,282 - Help, help! - Conrad, get behind me! 134 00:06:46,282 --> 00:06:47,240 (Brennan laughing) 135 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:51,630 - As he screams, I attempt to steal the child. 136 00:06:51,630 --> 00:06:53,133 - [Trapp] I pick up the closest thing to me 137 00:06:53,133 --> 00:06:54,151 and throw it at The Fix. 138 00:06:54,151 --> 00:06:55,326 (players laughing) 139 00:06:55,326 --> 00:06:57,167 - So I try and bat the thing away. (tense battle music) 140 00:06:57,167 --> 00:07:00,087 - [Brennan] Incredible, so go ahead. You give me sharp. 141 00:07:00,087 --> 00:07:01,351 - Okay. - [Brennan] And you give me sturdy 142 00:07:01,351 --> 00:07:03,723 as Hunch throws something at you. 143 00:07:05,490 --> 00:07:08,227 - That is a six. But a not exploding six. 144 00:07:08,227 --> 00:07:09,980 - That's eight. 145 00:07:09,980 --> 00:07:11,978 - Okay, two coming your way. 146 00:07:11,978 --> 00:07:13,986 (players laughing lightly) 147 00:07:13,986 --> 00:07:17,667 - This guy is rich in failure. - Cling cling. 148 00:07:17,667 --> 00:07:19,860 - So you bat it out of the way. 149 00:07:19,860 --> 00:07:23,280 Go ahead and give me a sharp opposed by a sturdy here. 150 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:24,785 - Sturdy. 151 00:07:24,785 --> 00:07:26,601 (tense music) 152 00:07:26,601 --> 00:07:27,810 - Okay. - Five. 153 00:07:27,810 --> 00:07:32,501 - Eight. - Can I give Moxie to Conrad? 154 00:07:32,501 --> 00:07:33,975 - You can give Moxie to Conrad. - I swear, I'm a good- 155 00:07:33,975 --> 00:07:36,473 a good guy, probably. - Can I dive in front of... 156 00:07:36,473 --> 00:07:38,766 - Yeah, absolutely. If you want to give three Moxie- 157 00:07:38,766 --> 00:07:40,668 - I'm going to burn three Moxie to dive. 158 00:07:40,668 --> 00:07:45,030 - Wait I want to give Moxie to... (group laughing) 159 00:07:45,030 --> 00:07:47,370 I can do this, right? - Yeah, you can abs- 160 00:07:47,370 --> 00:07:48,804 Arms race, full arms race. 161 00:07:48,804 --> 00:07:50,391 - He has so many, don't. 162 00:07:50,391 --> 00:07:53,640 - I can't go against that arsenal. 163 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,945 - After chucking, he bats it away, 164 00:07:55,945 --> 00:07:59,356 and I dive in front of Conrad and be like, leave him alone! 165 00:07:59,356 --> 00:08:03,090 - So Fix, you go with a hand towards Conrad, 166 00:08:03,090 --> 00:08:05,700 and the detective jumps in your path, 167 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:08,933 and you are blocked for a moment from accessing the child. 168 00:08:08,933 --> 00:08:10,916 and you are blocked for a moment from accessing the child. 169 00:08:10,916 --> 00:08:14,953 In this moment, do you continue to try to barrel past 170 00:08:14,953 --> 00:08:18,215 or overpower the detective, or is there a moment 171 00:08:18,215 --> 00:08:21,757 where this sudden interference changes your tactics? 172 00:08:21,757 --> 00:08:24,307 - It changes my- Now I'm interfacing with him. 173 00:08:24,307 --> 00:08:26,760 And I'm like, sir, I'm trying to help things here. 174 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:28,360 You do not know what's going on. 175 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:29,490 I need to protect this child. 176 00:08:29,490 --> 00:08:30,805 - That's right, I don't know what's going on, 177 00:08:30,805 --> 00:08:32,455 and I want to know what's going on! 178 00:08:32,455 --> 00:08:33,960 - Well, I'm not going to tell you what's going on, 179 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:35,550 and you're not going to make me talk! 180 00:08:35,550 --> 00:08:37,773 - Well, I'm fixing for you to tell me what's going on. 181 00:08:37,773 --> 00:08:40,260 (aggressively saying "Look at you!" back and forth) 182 00:08:40,260 --> 00:08:43,014 - I'm looking at you! - You guy are best friends. 183 00:08:43,014 --> 00:08:46,230 (players laughing) 184 00:08:46,230 --> 00:08:48,732 - Meanwhile, A. Tension is just taking notes. 185 00:08:48,732 --> 00:08:53,715 Look at you, look at you. No, look at you, look at you. 186 00:08:53,715 --> 00:08:57,090 - C- Conrad tries to sneak away again. - [Trapp] Goddammit! 187 00:08:57,090 --> 00:08:58,691 - There's always so much banter. 188 00:08:58,691 --> 00:09:02,016 (group laughing) 189 00:09:02,016 --> 00:09:03,141 - That's great sneaking times. 190 00:09:03,141 --> 00:09:06,434 - [Brennan] Incredible, go ahead and give me a sneak roll. 191 00:09:06,434 --> 00:09:08,893 - Every time I take my eyes off this fucking kid. 192 00:09:08,893 --> 00:09:12,645 - It's a two plus two, four. 193 00:09:12,645 --> 00:09:14,280 Do I add the escape artist every time? 194 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:16,560 - Yeah, that can be a seven there. 195 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:20,220 So I think on a seven, you don't manage to get away, 196 00:09:20,220 --> 00:09:23,580 but you kind of duck out in a shadow of the car 197 00:09:23,580 --> 00:09:25,050 under the rubble for a second. 198 00:09:25,050 --> 00:09:28,440 Justin the dog looks up at you and just goes, 199 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:30,060 protect him from what? 200 00:09:30,060 --> 00:09:31,500 - [Hank] You seem like a very smart dog. 201 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:32,948 (Brennan barks) 202 00:09:32,948 --> 00:09:35,997 - But I haven't figured it out myself yet, 203 00:09:35,997 --> 00:09:38,550 and I do not want to tell you. 204 00:09:38,550 --> 00:09:42,172 - Oh, well, I'll do anything to stop you. 205 00:09:42,172 --> 00:09:43,431 (players laughing) 206 00:09:43,431 --> 00:09:45,450 - Yeah, this dog and I, we're on the same page. 207 00:09:45,450 --> 00:09:46,980 If you're not going to give me information- 208 00:09:46,980 --> 00:09:49,153 - Everybody here is on the same page, 209 00:09:49,153 --> 00:09:52,350 you idiots! - What? I don't think that's right! 210 00:09:52,350 --> 00:09:53,997 - I'm actually one page ahead. 211 00:09:53,997 --> 00:09:56,462 I've been taking notes while everyone else has been talking. 212 00:09:56,462 --> 00:10:00,248 - You see that Justin looks up and says, 213 00:10:00,248 --> 00:10:04,320 if you don't have a reason for stealing my friend, 214 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:05,523 wherever he is, 215 00:10:05,523 --> 00:10:07,047 (players laughing lightly) 216 00:10:07,047 --> 00:10:11,482 then I'll bite you over and over again 217 00:10:11,482 --> 00:10:13,720 until either I'm dead or you're dead. 218 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:18,025 - The Fix raises his hand and says, as far as I can tell, 219 00:10:19,542 --> 00:10:21,425 dogs don't get hurt in this show. 220 00:10:21,425 --> 00:10:24,175 (players laughing) 221 00:10:24,175 --> 00:10:27,203 - You see Justin sort of (barks) laughs 222 00:10:27,203 --> 00:10:30,390 and you see a little, has his name on it, collar, 223 00:10:30,390 --> 00:10:31,894 and you see the first name Justin 224 00:10:31,894 --> 00:10:33,690 and the last name Fication. 225 00:10:33,690 --> 00:10:35,728 So you see something about you saying 226 00:10:35,728 --> 00:10:37,742 that you didn't have a reason for doing what you were doing 227 00:10:37,742 --> 00:10:39,727 has deeply angered (players laughing) 228 00:10:39,727 --> 00:10:43,192 this little rationalization hound 229 00:10:43,192 --> 00:10:44,575 who just goes like, 230 00:10:45,540 --> 00:10:48,396 well, all right, good. 231 00:10:49,380 --> 00:10:52,362 And says, Conrad? You around here? 232 00:10:52,362 --> 00:10:54,342 - Yeah, I'm right here. 233 00:10:54,342 --> 00:10:57,104 Conrad steps out from a trash can 234 00:10:57,104 --> 00:10:59,281 that's the exact same height as him. 235 00:10:59,281 --> 00:11:02,475 (players laughing) 236 00:11:02,475 --> 00:11:06,000 - Justin looks over and says, well, 237 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:07,830 me and Justin have been together 238 00:11:07,830 --> 00:11:10,818 ever since he adopted me and took me in 239 00:11:10,818 --> 00:11:15,519 outside of Madam Loathing's Home for Wayward Interests. 240 00:11:15,519 --> 00:11:18,254 - That's right, just babies adopting babies. 241 00:11:18,254 --> 00:11:19,479 (players laughing) 242 00:11:19,479 --> 00:11:21,951 - You're best friend. - You're my best friend! 243 00:11:21,951 --> 00:11:23,275 (players laughing) 244 00:11:23,275 --> 00:11:26,578 - It sounds sad when they say it, even though it's so happy. 245 00:11:26,578 --> 00:11:29,750 - You gotta say it like it's the last thing you'll ever say. 246 00:11:29,750 --> 00:11:31,969 - 'Cause it always could be. - It could be! 247 00:11:31,969 --> 00:11:34,744 (players laughing) 248 00:11:34,744 --> 00:11:36,407 - Here's my thing, I kind of just want a couple minutes 249 00:11:36,407 --> 00:11:39,360 where no one's trying to beat the shit or capture this kid, 250 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,250 because it seems like he's important. 251 00:11:41,250 --> 00:11:44,092 - That's right, Conrad. You have explaining to do. 252 00:11:44,940 --> 00:11:47,730 - I'll tell you everything I know, but it's not that much. 253 00:11:47,730 --> 00:11:48,990 - Out with it, then! 254 00:11:48,990 --> 00:11:50,878 - All right, well, 255 00:11:50,878 --> 00:11:52,461 (dramatic piano music) 256 00:11:52,461 --> 00:11:55,069 the big guy makes a lot of, 257 00:11:56,011 --> 00:11:59,400 not so good decisions sometimes and... 258 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,602 I haven't spoken up in a long, long time, 259 00:12:02,602 --> 00:12:05,398 and this is the first time that anyone has done anything 260 00:12:05,398 --> 00:12:08,670 about what I think about things, 261 00:12:08,670 --> 00:12:13,350 and that was you telling him to take that packet. 262 00:12:13,350 --> 00:12:15,725 And now, is this all my fault? 263 00:12:15,725 --> 00:12:17,250 Is all this happening because of me? 264 00:12:17,250 --> 00:12:18,482 - Assuredly so! 265 00:12:18,482 --> 00:12:19,634 - I'm pretty sure it's your fault. 266 00:12:19,634 --> 00:12:20,907 - Oh no! 267 00:12:20,907 --> 00:12:23,782 - Don't worry. Hey, everyone (barking) back off! 268 00:12:23,782 --> 00:12:26,865 (players laughing) 269 00:12:26,865 --> 00:12:29,610 You see Justin sort of steps out a little bit 270 00:12:29,610 --> 00:12:31,830 and looks up at Conrad and says, 271 00:12:31,830 --> 00:12:35,035 Madam Loathing thought Conrad was just another interest, 272 00:12:35,035 --> 00:12:37,770 but Conrad's a lot more than an interest. 273 00:12:37,770 --> 00:12:39,038 Conrad's a... 274 00:12:40,890 --> 00:12:45,253 Conrad's the big guy's conscience, and by all rights, 275 00:12:45,253 --> 00:12:48,030 Conrad should've grown up a long time ago, 276 00:12:48,030 --> 00:12:52,507 should be up there in City Hall, not hiding with me 277 00:12:52,507 --> 00:12:56,370 in the rubble and the rain, selling newspapers to get by. 278 00:12:56,370 --> 00:12:57,483 - I don't mind it. 279 00:12:58,470 --> 00:13:03,470 - Child conscience is underachiever. 280 00:13:03,810 --> 00:13:07,211 - That's an extremely slanted way- 281 00:13:07,211 --> 00:13:08,728 - This is what I'm talking about. 282 00:13:08,728 --> 00:13:12,420 It's never the clear story with Tension here. 283 00:13:12,420 --> 00:13:14,000 - I was paying attention while you were too busy 284 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,885 getting beat up and shot around. 285 00:13:15,885 --> 00:13:17,363 - At least I was doing something. 286 00:13:17,363 --> 00:13:18,390 - You're always doing something! 287 00:13:18,390 --> 00:13:20,040 You have to stop doing things. 288 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:25,040 Local PI needs to stop doing things. (writing sounds) 289 00:13:25,186 --> 00:13:26,275 - That'll sell papers. 290 00:13:26,275 --> 00:13:28,008 - She really does have it out for you, huh? 291 00:13:28,008 --> 00:13:30,990 - She does! - [Siobhan] I didn't believe it, but- 292 00:13:30,990 --> 00:13:34,107 - You see Justin looks over at Conrad and just goes, 293 00:13:34,107 --> 00:13:36,415 - You see Justin looks over at Conrad and just goes, 294 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:43,740 look, Conrad's been wrapping newspapers 295 00:13:43,740 --> 00:13:48,540 in the sort of buried stories for a long time, 296 00:13:48,540 --> 00:13:50,700 the stories that they don't like to run 297 00:13:50,700 --> 00:13:52,710 or they don't think about running. 298 00:13:52,710 --> 00:13:56,070 You're a reporter for that paper. 299 00:13:56,070 --> 00:13:59,473 Don't you think it's funny how much they 300 00:13:59,473 --> 00:14:03,752 run front page stories about things that, you know, 301 00:14:03,752 --> 00:14:08,168 maybe matter today or something that, you know, 302 00:14:08,168 --> 00:14:09,858 it's always something really urgent 303 00:14:09,858 --> 00:14:11,505 and there's something that's got to happen right now. 304 00:14:11,505 --> 00:14:15,360 But big picture, it's like things 305 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,058 get swept under the rug that really matter. 306 00:14:19,410 --> 00:14:23,293 - I've written stories about snot removal. 307 00:14:23,293 --> 00:14:25,770 I've written stories, beautiful stories, 308 00:14:25,770 --> 00:14:30,748 about the ashiness of elbows, and yet one of my best stories 309 00:14:30,748 --> 00:14:32,877 and one of my favorite stories, 310 00:14:32,877 --> 00:14:36,090 was a story that I once wrote about a lovely woman 311 00:14:36,090 --> 00:14:38,090 who worked at the coffee shop next door. 312 00:14:39,210 --> 00:14:43,260 She smiled at us one day. It was nice. 313 00:14:43,260 --> 00:14:44,741 And instead, 314 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,373 on the front page, 315 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:50,130 Dandruff! 316 00:14:50,130 --> 00:14:52,740 - I think everyone here remembers, 317 00:14:52,740 --> 00:14:55,560 I'm not sure how many people here read the Daily Observer, 318 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:57,540 but I feel like Dan, you- 319 00:14:57,540 --> 00:14:58,620 - Oh, yeah yeah yeah. 320 00:14:58,620 --> 00:15:01,200 That was like the highlight of the year. 321 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:02,033 It was like, oh, 322 00:15:02,033 --> 00:15:04,137 we're finally going to get the oxytocin in here! 323 00:15:04,137 --> 00:15:05,804 (Brennan laughing) 324 00:15:05,804 --> 00:15:07,198 Just need one hug! 325 00:15:07,198 --> 00:15:09,739 (Brennan laughing) 326 00:15:09,739 --> 00:15:11,759 We'll be rich! 327 00:15:11,759 --> 00:15:15,540 - We could've been flying high on that hug for a generation. 328 00:15:15,540 --> 00:15:17,828 - That hug would've powered us for a lifetime! 329 00:15:17,828 --> 00:15:18,969 (Freddie and Brennan laughing) 330 00:15:18,969 --> 00:15:20,820 - So I think that listening to that, 331 00:15:20,820 --> 00:15:23,640 the fact that Freddy decided to go with dandruff, 332 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:27,480 you see even Justin goes like, yeah, that dandruff 333 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:32,070 was the reason that the big guy didn't say anything. 334 00:15:32,070 --> 00:15:36,030 - And that's when we decided to move to Head and Shoulders. 335 00:15:36,030 --> 00:15:37,511 It was very important. 336 00:15:37,511 --> 00:15:38,469 (players laughing) 337 00:15:38,469 --> 00:15:40,110 And when he stopped wearing black shirts, 338 00:15:40,110 --> 00:15:41,282 coincidentally enough. 339 00:15:41,282 --> 00:15:43,223 (players laughing) 340 00:15:43,223 --> 00:15:46,110 - Justin looks over at you, Conrad, and says, 341 00:15:46,110 --> 00:15:48,260 do you think we should tell them why the... 342 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:53,513 What we think the problem is with the big guy? 343 00:15:54,660 --> 00:15:56,580 - It sounds like you want to, so. 344 00:15:56,580 --> 00:15:58,380 - I don't want to do it if you don't want to do it. 345 00:15:58,380 --> 00:15:59,363 (players laughing) 346 00:15:59,363 --> 00:16:02,640 I'll bite- I'll kill this guy. - I have to know now, okay? 347 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:05,487 You tease it out like that, I just have to know. 348 00:16:05,487 --> 00:16:08,340 - I know I'm not supposed to want you to kill everybody, 349 00:16:08,340 --> 00:16:11,610 but part of me wants to know what that would be like. 350 00:16:11,610 --> 00:16:13,320 Anyway- - You get it, kid. 351 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,343 - I'm the only part of this guy that's not kind of human. 352 00:16:16,343 --> 00:16:18,209 (players laughing) 353 00:16:18,209 --> 00:16:20,790 - Okay, I'll tell 'em. 354 00:16:20,790 --> 00:16:24,960 So our big guy, he works for a pharmaceutical company. 355 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:26,495 We all know that, right? 356 00:16:27,924 --> 00:16:30,202 They're working on some technology 357 00:16:30,202 --> 00:16:34,260 that just, it shouldn't be worked on. 358 00:16:34,260 --> 00:16:35,992 Something about mind reading. 359 00:16:35,992 --> 00:16:37,470 - Oh no. 360 00:16:37,470 --> 00:16:39,236 - You shouldn't be allowed to do that. 361 00:16:39,236 --> 00:16:40,486 (tense, serious music) 362 00:16:40,486 --> 00:16:44,250 - There's a lot of things Conrad started to put together 363 00:16:45,234 --> 00:16:47,128 from the newspapers. 364 00:16:47,128 --> 00:16:50,882 Not any one story, mind you, but Conrad sells them 365 00:16:50,882 --> 00:16:53,880 all day, every day, sees them all the time. 366 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,540 It's just, some of the things that the big guy's bosses 367 00:16:57,540 --> 00:17:00,480 out there, out in the real world, 368 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,233 some of the things they're saying don't add up. 369 00:17:05,190 --> 00:17:08,370 They're asking for bits of research 370 00:17:08,370 --> 00:17:10,680 certain deadlines getting moved up, 371 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:12,495 things like that that just... 372 00:17:14,670 --> 00:17:18,480 Elias Hodge is not getting the full story, 373 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:20,821 and that packet, 374 00:17:20,821 --> 00:17:23,190 that's all of the things we've been working on. 375 00:17:23,190 --> 00:17:28,190 And once that goes, then it's out of his hands forever. 376 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:29,885 Our hands forever. 377 00:17:29,885 --> 00:17:32,520 Our paws forever. I'm a dog. 378 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:34,157 - Yeah, we know. - Yeah. 379 00:17:34,157 --> 00:17:35,164 Just reminding. I can talk, 380 00:17:35,164 --> 00:17:36,925 and sometimes that scrambles people up. 381 00:17:36,925 --> 00:17:37,758 - Sure, yeah. 382 00:17:38,825 --> 00:17:42,990 - Man, so I should've not had him just take the packet, 383 00:17:42,990 --> 00:17:47,160 but maybe burn the packet and leave town 384 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,976 and change his name, and maybe get bangs. 385 00:17:49,976 --> 00:17:54,876 (players laughing) 386 00:17:54,876 --> 00:17:56,255 - You can do all that? 387 00:17:56,255 --> 00:17:57,925 - Oh, all kinds of things. 388 00:17:57,925 --> 00:18:00,422 - What'd you have him do with the packet? 389 00:18:00,422 --> 00:18:04,860 - I just took it, put it in his bag, 390 00:18:04,860 --> 00:18:06,988 left for the day. 391 00:18:06,988 --> 00:18:09,750 - I'll say at this point that you actually see some sirens 392 00:18:09,750 --> 00:18:12,622 coming up way up above you to that collapsed highway, 393 00:18:12,622 --> 00:18:16,733 so the fuzz has already gotten up to see the damage, 394 00:18:16,733 --> 00:18:18,967 and you hear a bullhorn up there saying, 395 00:18:18,967 --> 00:18:22,487 Mayor Logic has declared a state of emergency! 396 00:18:22,487 --> 00:18:26,445 State of emergency, as the Synaptic Switchboard is down. 397 00:18:26,445 --> 00:18:29,610 We are expecting repairs in short order. 398 00:18:29,610 --> 00:18:32,580 Do not panic. All is well. 399 00:18:32,580 --> 00:18:35,512 The eyes are closed. 400 00:18:35,512 --> 00:18:38,781 No visual information needed until repairs are completed. 401 00:18:38,781 --> 00:18:42,360 No visual information needed until repairs are completed. 402 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:46,218 - It's freezing and it's dark and it's raining. 403 00:18:46,218 --> 00:18:50,610 Let's go to a coffee shop or something? 404 00:18:50,610 --> 00:18:54,510 This is awful out here. I don't want to be here. 405 00:18:54,510 --> 00:18:55,713 - You are out on the street, 406 00:18:55,713 --> 00:18:57,715 and it's possible for the fuzz to find you here. 407 00:18:58,682 --> 00:19:00,734 - Yeah, I'm up with that. 408 00:19:01,890 --> 00:19:03,463 Get a good cup of mud. 409 00:19:06,913 --> 00:19:09,969 - [Brennan] Flickering- - We have glossaries. 410 00:19:09,969 --> 00:19:11,185 (players laughing) 411 00:19:11,185 --> 00:19:12,750 - Thank you, Carlos, for the glossaries. 412 00:19:12,750 --> 00:19:15,957 Flickering under the warm neon light, 413 00:19:15,957 --> 00:19:16,923 (soft noir music) 414 00:19:16,923 --> 00:19:21,330 you arrive at an old all-night diner. 415 00:19:21,330 --> 00:19:25,077 You see a warm yet older-looking, 416 00:19:25,077 --> 00:19:28,320 very serene soda jerk 417 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,927 behind the counter filling coffee for people, 418 00:19:31,927 --> 00:19:33,478 moving around, serving people. 419 00:19:33,478 --> 00:19:36,990 You see a giant neon Nostalgia's (neon flickering) 420 00:19:36,990 --> 00:19:40,321 flickering as the name of the diner. 421 00:19:40,321 --> 00:19:41,650 As you guys crowd into here 422 00:19:41,650 --> 00:19:44,382 to get out of sight, out of the way- 423 00:19:44,382 --> 00:19:49,020 - I notice that Anastasia is maybe wanting to talk to me, 424 00:19:49,020 --> 00:19:53,528 and I say, you know, I think I need to powder my nose. 425 00:19:53,528 --> 00:19:54,636 Anastasia? 426 00:19:55,470 --> 00:19:58,007 - Yes, I will also go with you to powder your nose. 427 00:19:58,007 --> 00:19:59,432 (Brennan laughing) (typewriter clacking) 428 00:19:59,432 --> 00:20:02,070 - You both step into the restroom of the diner 429 00:20:02,070 --> 00:20:04,519 to powder your nose. 430 00:20:04,519 --> 00:20:06,452 - What do you want from me, huh? 431 00:20:06,452 --> 00:20:09,558 - I want to know, where did you use that key? 432 00:20:11,100 --> 00:20:14,970 - The same place we always use the keys, Anastasia. 433 00:20:14,970 --> 00:20:17,133 Have you forgotten so much? 434 00:20:17,133 --> 00:20:19,470 - I do not use the keys anymore. 435 00:20:19,470 --> 00:20:22,213 I do not think that it is fair that we are able 436 00:20:22,213 --> 00:20:23,790 to have so much power over the big guy. 437 00:20:23,790 --> 00:20:24,623 - Oh sure, 438 00:20:24,623 --> 00:20:26,765 oh sure. - I have stopped using the keys, 439 00:20:26,765 --> 00:20:29,706 but confidentiality, 440 00:20:30,660 --> 00:20:33,868 I noticed at the site of the explosion 441 00:20:33,868 --> 00:20:36,418 I noticed at the site of the explosion 442 00:20:36,418 --> 00:20:39,983 that there was a huge, destroyed keyhole. 443 00:20:39,983 --> 00:20:42,458 that there was a huge, destroyed keyhole. 444 00:20:42,458 --> 00:20:45,510 - Well, that wasn't me. I don't know what to tell you. 445 00:20:45,510 --> 00:20:46,343 - Are you sure? 446 00:20:46,343 --> 00:20:48,480 Because it definitely seems like something you would do. 447 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,146 Which is put a key into a keyhole 448 00:20:50,146 --> 00:20:51,604 and then watch it explode for fun. 449 00:20:51,604 --> 00:20:54,203 - Yes, absolutely, that does sound like me. 450 00:20:54,203 --> 00:20:55,036 (players laughing) 451 00:20:55,036 --> 00:20:57,360 I can't fault you on that. You're correct. 452 00:20:57,360 --> 00:21:00,472 You paid attention to the way that I behave, good for you. 453 00:21:00,472 --> 00:21:01,305 (players snicker) 454 00:21:01,305 --> 00:21:03,900 - I'm going to try to listen at the door. 455 00:21:03,900 --> 00:21:06,447 I think the fact that Tension- - [Hank] That's great. 456 00:21:06,447 --> 00:21:09,591 - Tension and my client have both left for a while. 457 00:21:09,591 --> 00:21:10,591 It's like, this is too, 458 00:21:10,591 --> 00:21:11,700 I gotta hear what's going on here. 459 00:21:11,700 --> 00:21:12,958 - Give me a snoop check, 460 00:21:12,958 --> 00:21:15,750 and I'll say each of you can give me a sneak check, 461 00:21:15,750 --> 00:21:17,190 but we'll take the lower of the two 462 00:21:17,190 --> 00:21:18,930 because you're having a heated conversation. 463 00:21:18,930 --> 00:21:20,310 - Oh boy. - [Danielle] Okay. 464 00:21:20,310 --> 00:21:23,247 - [Hank] Disadvantage. - Disadvantage. There you go. 465 00:21:23,247 --> 00:21:25,427 - I got a five sneak? 466 00:21:25,427 --> 00:21:26,993 (Trapp laughing) 467 00:21:26,993 --> 00:21:29,930 - So I've got a nine plus ♪ two, ♪ so I've got 11. 468 00:21:29,930 --> 00:21:32,730 - [Brennan] 11. So we got a 5 sneak here, and what- 469 00:21:32,730 --> 00:21:34,061 - Now, I rolled a one, 470 00:21:34,061 --> 00:21:35,260 (players laughing) 471 00:21:35,260 --> 00:21:37,002 and I'm going to burn all four of my Moxie. 472 00:21:37,002 --> 00:21:38,610 (players laughing) 473 00:21:38,610 --> 00:21:40,188 - There it is. 474 00:21:40,188 --> 00:21:42,480 So you hear this conversation 475 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:46,099 about an exploded keyhole. 476 00:21:46,099 --> 00:21:47,370 - Sorry, hold on, that was plus one, 477 00:21:47,370 --> 00:21:49,470 so I'll burn three of the Moxie. 478 00:21:49,470 --> 00:21:50,517 - [Brennan] Gotcha, cool cool cool. 479 00:21:50,517 --> 00:21:52,500 So you hear that entire discussion. 480 00:21:52,500 --> 00:21:55,242 - Cool. - Meanwhile, Dan Fucks, (laughing) Conrad, 481 00:21:55,242 --> 00:21:58,710 Conrad Schintz, and The Fix are just at the booth. 482 00:21:58,710 --> 00:22:00,270 - Fix, what are you having? 483 00:22:00,270 --> 00:22:03,082 - Can I get a chair? I don't fit in the booth. 484 00:22:03,082 --> 00:22:06,032 (players laughing) 485 00:22:06,032 --> 00:22:07,890 - You see that the soda jerk looks over and says, 486 00:22:07,890 --> 00:22:09,660 hey there pal, you like a chair to sit down in? 487 00:22:09,660 --> 00:22:10,680 - Yeah. 488 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:11,513 - That's all right, mister. 489 00:22:11,513 --> 00:22:13,140 We can get you a chair right now. 490 00:22:13,140 --> 00:22:15,438 What was your favorite chair growing up? 491 00:22:15,438 --> 00:22:16,721 (players laughing) 492 00:22:16,721 --> 00:22:18,485 Your favorite chair? 493 00:22:18,485 --> 00:22:20,233 - I think it was... 494 00:22:21,245 --> 00:22:25,515 I've always been this size, but I used to be younger, 495 00:22:25,515 --> 00:22:28,203 but still this size, so my favorite chair 496 00:22:28,203 --> 00:22:31,560 was the one chair that didn't break. 497 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,208 It was called... 498 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:36,540 Albert. 499 00:22:36,540 --> 00:22:37,973 - Oh. - I called it Albert. 500 00:22:37,973 --> 00:22:39,195 - You called it Albert. 501 00:22:39,195 --> 00:22:42,000 - Yeah, that's sort of the noise it made when I sat on it. 502 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,008 Albert! 503 00:22:43,008 --> 00:22:48,008 - This beautiful green recliner BarcaLounger chair 504 00:22:48,008 --> 00:22:51,210 thumps in front of you, wooden clawfoot legs. 505 00:22:51,210 --> 00:22:52,320 - Albert! 506 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,750 - You take a seat in it. (creaking in the sound of "albert") 507 00:22:54,750 --> 00:22:57,366 (players laughing) 508 00:22:57,366 --> 00:23:00,030 As the gears kind of swivel it in a little bit. 509 00:23:00,030 --> 00:23:01,262 The guy says, holy shit, 510 00:23:01,262 --> 00:23:03,736 it really says Albert when you sit in it. 511 00:23:03,736 --> 00:23:05,967 I thought that was going to be sort of a whimsical thing, 512 00:23:05,967 --> 00:23:07,220 but it really sounds 513 00:23:07,220 --> 00:23:09,503 much like a person saying Albert. - Like a human voice. 514 00:23:09,503 --> 00:23:12,938 - The Fix's eyes are a little bit misty. 515 00:23:14,092 --> 00:23:16,180 - You see he pats you and says, don't worry. 516 00:23:16,180 --> 00:23:19,976 Here at Nostalgia's, it's always just like it used to be, 517 00:23:19,976 --> 00:23:22,546 and actually ever so slightly better. 518 00:23:23,550 --> 00:23:24,900 - That's a good chair. 519 00:23:24,900 --> 00:23:28,488 I'd like to apologize for trying to steal you. 520 00:23:29,602 --> 00:23:31,920 I do have some explaining to do, but I'm going to 521 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,995 wait until those ladies and that really creepy man 522 00:23:34,995 --> 00:23:36,960 listening at the ladies' room door get back. 523 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:38,526 (Brennan laughing) 524 00:23:38,526 --> 00:23:41,220 - You see a regular of Daniel Fucks' club 525 00:23:41,220 --> 00:23:42,210 comes up to the door and says, 526 00:23:42,210 --> 00:23:43,740 we're doing some bathroom door listening! 527 00:23:43,740 --> 00:23:45,613 - It's not like that, man. 528 00:23:45,613 --> 00:23:48,210 - Oh, all right. What's your name, pal? (spits) 529 00:23:48,210 --> 00:23:49,526 - Don't touch me! Don't fucking talk to me! 530 00:23:49,526 --> 00:23:51,600 - Come on, take my hand! - I've never done that before. 531 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,644 I take the spitty hand. It's weird, I don't like that. 532 00:23:54,644 --> 00:23:56,015 I don't think I'm going to do that again. 533 00:23:56,015 --> 00:23:57,723 (players laughing) 534 00:23:57,723 --> 00:23:58,770 - So the two of you continue 535 00:23:58,770 --> 00:24:00,953 to have your conversation in the powder room. 536 00:24:02,310 --> 00:24:06,663 - I'm concerned that if you did not use the key... 537 00:24:07,860 --> 00:24:10,920 - Well, I used the key. I just didn't break the keyhole. 538 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,100 - Well then, who has other keys? 539 00:24:14,100 --> 00:24:16,800 - Well, I don't know, but if it's broken, 540 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,245 then maybe they didn't use a key. 541 00:24:18,245 --> 00:24:20,640 Maybe they had to break it to use it. 542 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,650 Did you ever think of that? 543 00:24:22,650 --> 00:24:24,630 That seems like a thing that I would also do. 544 00:24:24,630 --> 00:24:27,482 But again, I did not. I used the proper key. 545 00:24:27,482 --> 00:24:29,440 (curious twinkling music) 546 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:31,110 - I think here, you also remember 547 00:24:31,110 --> 00:24:33,770 that evidence cart that went away. 548 00:24:34,710 --> 00:24:36,120 There's beginning to be a lot of loose ends, 549 00:24:36,120 --> 00:24:38,820 both back at the crime scene, that evidence cart, 550 00:24:38,820 --> 00:24:41,793 and also the fact that you know that other people 551 00:24:41,793 --> 00:24:43,830 in the family had keys as well, right? - Yeah. 552 00:24:43,830 --> 00:24:45,270 - [Brennan] So. - Do we have... 553 00:24:45,270 --> 00:24:47,868 I don't, I don't think, but do we have an idea 554 00:24:47,868 --> 00:24:51,377 of the kinds of folks who would have keys, 555 00:24:51,377 --> 00:24:53,518 or is it not a known thing. 556 00:24:53,518 --> 00:24:57,223 - Immanuel and Imogen Pulse both, 557 00:24:57,223 --> 00:24:59,647 which are Imelda's mother and father, 558 00:24:59,647 --> 00:25:02,146 would likely both have keys. 559 00:25:02,146 --> 00:25:03,630 But it's possible that there are others. 560 00:25:03,630 --> 00:25:06,735 That's just, the Pulse Family is incredibly 561 00:25:06,735 --> 00:25:10,422 notable and wealthy, but it's possible there's others. 562 00:25:10,422 --> 00:25:11,763 But the main thing you would probably know 563 00:25:11,763 --> 00:25:14,065 is that most of the people who run the city 564 00:25:14,065 --> 00:25:15,718 wouldn't need a key, 565 00:25:15,718 --> 00:25:18,210 because the governmental bodies they are in charge of 566 00:25:18,210 --> 00:25:22,860 are what actually theoretically makes all the decisions. 567 00:25:22,860 --> 00:25:27,717 The keys are like a backdoor, and probably, you would know, 568 00:25:27,717 --> 00:25:30,990 can't be used to do big, complex things. 569 00:25:30,990 --> 00:25:35,757 Imelda couldn't execute a 20 part plan 570 00:25:35,757 --> 00:25:37,601 through impulse, right? 571 00:25:37,601 --> 00:25:40,842 But it's like, I can get you to do one quick thing, right? 572 00:25:40,842 --> 00:25:44,095 So you would know all of that information. 573 00:25:46,380 --> 00:25:48,973 - That was also not the only problem. 574 00:25:48,973 --> 00:25:51,890 There was what appeared to be 575 00:25:51,890 --> 00:25:55,082 many files and packages and things 576 00:25:55,082 --> 00:25:59,700 that were suddenly whisked away from the crime scene. 577 00:25:59,700 --> 00:26:02,260 - Well, I don't know anything about a crime scene, 578 00:26:02,260 --> 00:26:04,083 and I don't know about anything 579 00:26:04,083 --> 00:26:06,678 being whisked away from anywhere. 580 00:26:06,678 --> 00:26:07,928 - You're telling me you don't know anything 581 00:26:07,928 --> 00:26:09,692 about something being whisked away? 582 00:26:09,692 --> 00:26:14,034 - I'm not a whisker! I don't whisk anything! 583 00:26:14,034 --> 00:26:16,260 I've never whisked a thing in my life! 584 00:26:16,260 --> 00:26:18,582 - You have been known to whisk. I've seen you whisk. 585 00:26:18,582 --> 00:26:21,720 - Oh fine, I'll whisk a thing every now and again, 586 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,479 just for fun, but I've never whisked evidence! 587 00:26:25,479 --> 00:26:28,770 - (sigh) That is true, you have never whisked evidence. 588 00:26:28,770 --> 00:26:30,960 - And certainly not in the last couple of days. 589 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,970 Maybe last week, a couple of months ago, 590 00:26:32,970 --> 00:26:34,860 taking a piece of evidence here and there, 591 00:26:34,860 --> 00:26:36,960 but not for any nefarious reasons! 592 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,360 Sometimes you just gotta take a thing, you know what I mean? 593 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:41,658 I take one of the soaps and put it in my pocket. 594 00:26:41,658 --> 00:26:44,891 (group laughing) 595 00:26:44,891 --> 00:26:46,395 - [Brennan] What's Hunch doing outside the door? 596 00:26:46,395 --> 00:26:48,840 - Hunch is going to scurry back to the table 597 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,570 and take a close seat next to Conrad. 598 00:26:51,570 --> 00:26:52,424 - Cool. 599 00:26:52,424 --> 00:26:55,157 - Kind of lean over to Conrad and sort of be like, 600 00:26:56,452 --> 00:26:58,830 I don't know exactly what's going on yet. 601 00:26:58,830 --> 00:27:00,277 - Why are you so close to me? 602 00:27:00,277 --> 00:27:03,043 (players laughing) 603 00:27:03,043 --> 00:27:05,700 - Because I think there's a lot of people 604 00:27:05,700 --> 00:27:07,380 trying to kill you right now. 605 00:27:07,380 --> 00:27:08,741 - Okay, and are you one of them? 606 00:27:08,741 --> 00:27:10,110 - I am not one of them. 607 00:27:10,110 --> 00:27:12,685 - Okay, well, that's what the other people are saying. 608 00:27:12,685 --> 00:27:14,515 - I can't argue with that logic. 609 00:27:14,515 --> 00:27:16,500 That's pretty tight logic there. 610 00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:18,780 But I will say, I did stop The Fix 611 00:27:18,780 --> 00:27:20,400 from beating the crap out of you, 612 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,240 and I did stop Danny Fucks from beating the crap out of you. 613 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:24,930 So if it's The Fix or the Fucks- 614 00:27:24,930 --> 00:27:29,136 (players laughing) 615 00:27:29,136 --> 00:27:30,428 - [Alex] All right, well. 616 00:27:30,428 --> 00:27:32,760 - I don't know if that earns your trust, 617 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,047 but I just want to be close to you right now 618 00:27:35,047 --> 00:27:36,540 to make sure nothing else bad happens. 619 00:27:36,540 --> 00:27:37,965 - I guess I appreciate it. 620 00:27:37,965 --> 00:27:41,461 I mean, I'm at a table with all three of you. 621 00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:45,025 I'm just going to see how it plays out, I guess. 622 00:27:45,025 --> 00:27:46,950 - I think the two of you, unless there's more to discuss, 623 00:27:46,950 --> 00:27:48,780 emerge from the bathroom 624 00:27:48,780 --> 00:27:51,515 and join your companions at the table here. 625 00:27:51,515 --> 00:27:54,346 - Im, I believe I heard sneaking. 626 00:27:54,346 --> 00:27:55,880 We should go back to the table. 627 00:27:57,773 --> 00:27:58,950 - I open, 628 00:27:58,950 --> 00:28:00,960 the two of us are like- - You just see a guy out there who says, 629 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,089 don't mind me, I'm just a pervert. 630 00:28:03,089 --> 00:28:05,472 (group laughing) 631 00:28:05,472 --> 00:28:07,823 - It's that guy with the spit on his hand! 632 00:28:07,823 --> 00:28:09,360 (Brennan spitting) 633 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:11,980 - I'm the thought about just this. Doing this all the time. 634 00:28:11,980 --> 00:28:15,023 (laughing) And then runs off. 635 00:28:15,023 --> 00:28:16,125 - What's his name? 636 00:28:16,125 --> 00:28:17,490 - Some people are larger concepts, 637 00:28:17,490 --> 00:28:19,555 and some of us are real specific! 638 00:28:19,555 --> 00:28:20,488 (players laughing) 639 00:28:20,488 --> 00:28:21,587 He runs away. 640 00:28:21,587 --> 00:28:23,016 - (trailing off) You'll never see me again! 641 00:28:23,016 --> 00:28:24,766 (group laughing) 642 00:28:24,766 --> 00:28:26,948 - That's what he yells every time he flees. 643 00:28:26,948 --> 00:28:29,240 (group laughing) 644 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,582 - I sort of, I kind of like, just sort of like, 645 00:28:31,582 --> 00:28:32,982 kind of put my hands down. 646 00:28:32,982 --> 00:28:36,600 I go, okay. We got a lot of things going on here. 647 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,990 The way I see it, someone, 648 00:28:39,990 --> 00:28:41,700 I know from the taste of the blood, 649 00:28:41,700 --> 00:28:45,480 the Avaricci, definitely out to kill Conrad. 650 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,000 Conrad knows what's going on with this file 651 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,610 that Imelda moved, so we have to assume 652 00:28:50,610 --> 00:28:52,890 Avaricci did not want that file moved, 653 00:28:52,890 --> 00:28:56,725 and that Conrad is going to be helpful there. 654 00:28:56,725 --> 00:28:59,490 We also have to assume that these keys are important. 655 00:28:59,490 --> 00:29:01,596 Now, either they were trying to stop more people 656 00:29:01,596 --> 00:29:02,750 from using the keys, 657 00:29:02,750 --> 00:29:04,385 or they want to use the keys themselves. 658 00:29:04,385 --> 00:29:06,600 In either case, I think anyone who holds a key 659 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,368 is either at risk or is a threat, 660 00:29:09,368 --> 00:29:12,713 and that sounds like something I want to know more about. 661 00:29:12,713 --> 00:29:14,747 - I think at this point, you also, Fix, 662 00:29:14,747 --> 00:29:16,043 remember that when he starts talking 663 00:29:16,043 --> 00:29:18,060 about a file and Conrad- - Yeah. 664 00:29:18,060 --> 00:29:21,951 - You remember, yeah, that you have something similar. 665 00:29:21,951 --> 00:29:26,550 - Now, I know a few of you, and I won't say who. 666 00:29:26,550 --> 00:29:28,131 - It's me. He knows me. 667 00:29:28,131 --> 00:29:30,039 (Freddie laughing) 668 00:29:30,039 --> 00:29:33,507 - I've done some work for some of the people at this table, 669 00:29:33,507 --> 00:29:38,492 and I like my work, and I don't question my work, usually. 670 00:29:38,492 --> 00:29:42,723 But I recently was given a reason to worry 671 00:29:42,723 --> 00:29:44,332 for the first time in my career, 672 00:29:44,332 --> 00:29:46,860 and I was just gonna do as I was told, 673 00:29:46,860 --> 00:29:49,680 but something's not right here. 674 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,950 I know how to do my job, 675 00:29:52,950 --> 00:29:57,300 but the district attorney, Mr. Bition, 676 00:29:57,300 --> 00:30:00,420 he gave me a contract. (tense string music) 677 00:30:00,420 --> 00:30:04,890 Just something I do, I eliminate distraction for this mind. 678 00:30:04,890 --> 00:30:09,890 We could not function as a society without that work. 679 00:30:10,247 --> 00:30:13,230 So I'm proud of it, and I like it. 680 00:30:14,340 --> 00:30:19,020 But he gave me a contract for something to eliminate. 681 00:30:19,020 --> 00:30:22,050 He pulls it out, he puts it on the table, 682 00:30:22,050 --> 00:30:25,240 and it says Conrad... Schintz. 683 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:26,411 - About damn time! 684 00:30:26,411 --> 00:30:28,344 - Oh no, help! Help! 685 00:30:28,344 --> 00:30:31,017 (Alex screaming "help!" repeatedly while Brennan barks) 686 00:30:31,017 --> 00:30:32,492 (players laughing) 687 00:30:32,492 --> 00:30:36,387 - I pick up the file and I say, this says Conrad Schintz! 688 00:30:36,387 --> 00:30:38,995 (players laughing) 689 00:30:38,995 --> 00:30:41,130 - I do want you all to know that if I wanted to, 690 00:30:41,130 --> 00:30:43,320 I could kill any one of you quite quickly. 691 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,870 Now, all you at once would be a little bit tricky, 692 00:30:45,870 --> 00:30:48,067 but I probably could pull it off. 693 00:30:48,067 --> 00:30:51,336 There is something too weird going on here, 694 00:30:52,727 --> 00:30:55,350 and it's not just that I was told to kill a child, 695 00:30:55,350 --> 00:30:57,360 which I have never been told to do before. 696 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,970 - Never? - No, actually. 697 00:30:59,970 --> 00:31:00,993 - I just wanted to- 698 00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:05,806 - You know, I mostly think y'all are quite fun. 699 00:31:07,860 --> 00:31:09,930 Good folk, children. 700 00:31:09,930 --> 00:31:13,290 - Children. Ah, the innocent babes. Good folk. 701 00:31:13,290 --> 00:31:14,490 - [Hank] Good folk! 702 00:31:14,490 --> 00:31:16,513 - On behalf of children, thank you. 703 00:31:16,513 --> 00:31:18,221 (players laughing) 704 00:31:18,221 --> 00:31:21,015 - I appreciate your appreciation. 705 00:31:21,015 --> 00:31:22,748 (Freddie laughing) 706 00:31:22,748 --> 00:31:25,878 But I have to say, I do not know what to do 707 00:31:25,878 --> 00:31:28,711 when I'm not being told what to do, 708 00:31:28,711 --> 00:31:31,337 so I'm maybe going to be looking to y'all for some of that. 709 00:31:31,337 --> 00:31:34,426 - Conrad, give me a snoop check, difficulty of four. 710 00:31:37,140 --> 00:31:38,940 - Three, but I'll burn a Moxie. 711 00:31:38,940 --> 00:31:40,410 - Hell yeah. 712 00:31:40,410 --> 00:31:44,580 You notice, as The Fix is speaking, 713 00:31:44,580 --> 00:31:46,600 and I think you've probably heard, 714 00:31:47,610 --> 00:31:49,172 you've never seen The Fix before, 715 00:31:49,172 --> 00:31:51,150 but you've heard ghost stories about this guy. 716 00:31:51,150 --> 00:31:53,622 There's a lot of dangerous gangster types 717 00:31:53,622 --> 00:31:54,772 who wander the mind, 718 00:31:54,772 --> 00:31:58,470 and this dude's got arms down to the middle of his shins 719 00:31:58,470 --> 00:32:01,603 and is a hulking trapezoid gorilla 720 00:32:01,603 --> 00:32:04,003 and is a hulking trapezoid gorilla 721 00:32:04,003 --> 00:32:07,763 who just wanders around the shadows of Mentopolis 722 00:32:07,763 --> 00:32:09,690 murdering distractions. 723 00:32:09,690 --> 00:32:12,218 But I think that on that snoop check, 724 00:32:12,218 --> 00:32:15,723 you see him sort of stopped in his tracks. 725 00:32:15,723 --> 00:32:20,723 He said, I changed my mind. I thought something was weird. 726 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,868 and I think for the first time in a long time, 727 00:32:23,868 --> 00:32:28,770 as sad or depressed as Conrad often is, 728 00:32:28,770 --> 00:32:31,158 that you recognize 729 00:32:31,158 --> 00:32:35,188 that the thing that stopped 730 00:32:35,188 --> 00:32:38,367 him has something to do with you. 731 00:32:38,367 --> 00:32:40,950 You look and realize that the first thing that affected him 732 00:32:40,950 --> 00:32:43,740 was your name and face on this portrait 733 00:32:43,740 --> 00:32:46,590 and, you know, there's some power. 734 00:32:46,590 --> 00:32:48,660 This guy wanders around the brain killing distractions. 735 00:32:48,660 --> 00:32:53,580 Imelda can actually speak to the big guy upstairs, 736 00:32:53,580 --> 00:32:55,890 and I think there's a moment on that four snoop check 737 00:32:55,890 --> 00:32:58,548 where you are aware that you were able to interrupt 738 00:32:58,548 --> 00:33:01,870 where you are aware that you were able to interrupt 739 00:33:01,870 --> 00:33:04,280 another cognitive function. 740 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,620 Something about you specifically was able to make 741 00:33:07,620 --> 00:33:11,190 some other thing, that normally the grownups in Mentopolis 742 00:33:11,190 --> 00:33:13,730 are just hustling and bustling and never stoppable 743 00:33:13,730 --> 00:33:15,780 and always just doing what they were always going to do 744 00:33:15,780 --> 00:33:18,113 mindlessly and with no awareness about the consequences 745 00:33:18,113 --> 00:33:21,460 of what they're doing, but something about you 746 00:33:21,460 --> 00:33:25,525 made one of these adult functions stop. 747 00:33:27,202 --> 00:33:28,251 - Whoa. 748 00:33:30,630 --> 00:33:32,030 You're not going to hurt me? 749 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,450 - You know, the tails on a swallowtail butterfly 750 00:33:36,450 --> 00:33:39,109 don't serve any aerodynamic purpose. 751 00:33:39,109 --> 00:33:40,125 (Brennan laughing) 752 00:33:40,125 --> 00:33:42,006 - I feel very threatened all of a sudden. 753 00:33:42,006 --> 00:33:44,788 (players laughing) 754 00:33:44,788 --> 00:33:49,380 - They're there because birds need something to grab onto 755 00:33:49,380 --> 00:33:51,840 when they're trying to kill a butterfly, 756 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,960 and they are designed to capture the attention of a bird. 757 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,860 And that bird will grab onto that tail, 758 00:33:58,860 --> 00:34:01,066 and it will break off. (Brennan barks) 759 00:34:01,066 --> 00:34:04,090 And the butterfly will be free. 760 00:34:04,090 --> 00:34:07,110 That is how I imagine my work sometimes. 761 00:34:07,110 --> 00:34:10,050 Some things have to go. 762 00:34:10,050 --> 00:34:12,117 I do not think that you 763 00:34:12,117 --> 00:34:15,233 are the tail of a swallowtail butterfly. 764 00:34:16,230 --> 00:34:18,705 I think you might be the butterfly. 765 00:34:19,906 --> 00:34:21,039 - I only, 766 00:34:21,039 --> 00:34:22,972 I only caught half of that. 767 00:34:22,972 --> 00:34:24,264 (players laughing) 768 00:34:24,264 --> 00:34:25,590 - You see Justin looks and says, 769 00:34:25,590 --> 00:34:27,487 I'll tell you anything you want to know. 770 00:34:27,487 --> 00:34:30,512 (group laughing) 771 00:34:30,512 --> 00:34:33,000 You see the soda jerk comes back over and serves you guys 772 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,168 any drinks you've ordered up 'til that point. 773 00:34:35,168 --> 00:34:37,985 - It's just syrup. Just pancake syrup. (players laughing) 774 00:34:37,985 --> 00:34:40,260 - You just want a full pint glass of grenadine? 775 00:34:40,260 --> 00:34:42,900 - Yes. No, pancake syrup. No pancakes. 776 00:34:42,900 --> 00:34:44,938 - I'll take a full glass of grenadine. 777 00:34:44,938 --> 00:34:46,088 (Brennan laughing) 778 00:34:46,088 --> 00:34:47,190 - I do love the syrup. 779 00:34:47,190 --> 00:34:49,590 - He says, pancake syrup? So, maple. 780 00:34:49,590 --> 00:34:50,623 You're saying pancake syrup. 781 00:34:50,623 --> 00:34:51,897 Do you mean maple syrup, or do you mean- 782 00:34:51,897 --> 00:34:53,815 - I am unaware of this distinction. 783 00:34:53,815 --> 00:34:57,654 I just want the syrup. The sweet stuff, baby. 784 00:34:57,654 --> 00:34:58,828 Pour it down my threat. 785 00:34:58,828 --> 00:35:01,623 - See, we only serve things here at Nostalgia's 786 00:35:01,623 --> 00:35:04,590 that you have a love of from a long- 787 00:35:04,590 --> 00:35:05,430 Did you- 788 00:35:05,430 --> 00:35:06,683 Is there a me- 789 00:35:06,683 --> 00:35:09,660 You see, weirdly, a memory comes up of Elias Hodge 790 00:35:09,660 --> 00:35:12,688 hiding in a pantry, just guzzling a full thing 791 00:35:12,688 --> 00:35:14,234 of syrup. - Just full on, yeah yeah yeah. 792 00:35:14,234 --> 00:35:18,317 - And just burping and screaming and crying (laughing). 793 00:35:18,317 --> 00:35:21,330 - Cut to him outside running as hard as he can 794 00:35:21,330 --> 00:35:23,360 full sprint in a circle. 795 00:35:25,140 --> 00:35:26,998 Ah, those were the days! 796 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:30,165 Carefree youth! 797 00:35:30,165 --> 00:35:32,058 - All of you are these synaptic beings 798 00:35:32,058 --> 00:35:33,750 that can kind of light up rooms that you're in. 799 00:35:33,750 --> 00:35:37,770 Dan just lights up, and you see the first image 800 00:35:37,770 --> 00:35:39,750 in the reflection of the diner window (sound of light humming) 801 00:35:39,750 --> 00:35:43,052 of a little kid's hand grabbing a stick, 802 00:35:43,052 --> 00:35:45,270 and the whole diner lights up 803 00:35:45,270 --> 00:35:48,477 with a feeling of, oh, that's a good stick! 804 00:35:48,477 --> 00:35:51,085 - That's a good stick! - I found a good stick! 805 00:35:51,085 --> 00:35:52,417 - Heavy, good weight to it. 806 00:35:52,417 --> 00:35:54,475 (Brennan laughing) 807 00:35:54,475 --> 00:35:58,982 - Deep, profound pleasure. This fucking stick rules! 808 00:35:58,982 --> 00:36:00,900 And (whoosh) the light diminishes once again. 809 00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:02,550 - What are you all having? 810 00:36:03,420 --> 00:36:05,763 - I'll have a cup of coffee grounds. 811 00:36:05,763 --> 00:36:08,488 (players laughing lightly) 812 00:36:08,488 --> 00:36:09,572 - Justin goes, what? 813 00:36:09,572 --> 00:36:12,455 (players laughing) 814 00:36:12,455 --> 00:36:14,790 The soda jerk says, you don't want coffee? 815 00:36:14,790 --> 00:36:15,831 You want the grounds? 816 00:36:15,831 --> 00:36:17,622 - Yeah, just the grounds. Whatever's left. 817 00:36:17,622 --> 00:36:20,085 - That's so thoughtful in a way 818 00:36:20,085 --> 00:36:22,561 that I can't bear to think about. 819 00:36:22,561 --> 00:36:25,669 (players laughing) 820 00:36:25,669 --> 00:36:30,630 Okay, I'm going to go get you real food. How's that sound? 821 00:36:30,630 --> 00:36:32,850 You've inspired me to want to help you. 822 00:36:32,850 --> 00:36:36,125 - Okay, well, I didn't ask for that, but (laughing) 823 00:36:36,990 --> 00:36:40,606 - No, but yeah, I don't want to offend yo- 824 00:36:40,606 --> 00:36:42,239 (stammering) 825 00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,620 He walks away, totally confu- (players laughing) 826 00:36:44,620 --> 00:36:46,003 (stammering and laughing) 827 00:36:46,003 --> 00:36:48,697 Con Schintz has left this guy in a state of panic 828 00:36:48,697 --> 00:36:50,497 about what the right thing to do is. 829 00:36:50,497 --> 00:36:53,915 Do I give the kid grounds? And then walks away. 830 00:36:53,915 --> 00:36:55,260 - Oh no, no one else got to order. 831 00:36:55,260 --> 00:36:57,752 - Conrad, you fool! (players laughing) 832 00:36:57,752 --> 00:36:59,035 Look at what you've done! 833 00:36:59,035 --> 00:37:00,990 You impudent child! 834 00:37:00,990 --> 00:37:02,820 - All right, coffee grounds? 835 00:37:02,820 --> 00:37:05,310 But I'll make something better than that. 836 00:37:05,310 --> 00:37:08,758 - I will have a glass of room temperature vodka. 837 00:37:08,758 --> 00:37:10,716 (Alex laughing) 838 00:37:10,716 --> 00:37:14,190 - Jesus Christ. Okay, yes, all right. 839 00:37:14,190 --> 00:37:15,613 - Yeah, can I get the experience 840 00:37:15,613 --> 00:37:17,790 of tasting a root beer float for the first time? 841 00:37:17,790 --> 00:37:21,690 - Ah. Points up at that exact thing written big on the menu. 842 00:37:21,690 --> 00:37:23,100 It's like the first thing. - Yeah. 843 00:37:23,100 --> 00:37:25,680 - Yeah. Yeah, we can do that. 844 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:26,820 That's exactly right. 845 00:37:26,820 --> 00:37:28,698 - Don't you have anything new? 846 00:37:28,698 --> 00:37:31,381 - (sighs) Look, Ms. Pulse, (Hank laughing) 847 00:37:31,381 --> 00:37:33,710 you come to Nostalgia's all the time! 848 00:37:33,710 --> 00:37:35,880 We only serve things we already liked! 849 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,358 - Well, I don't know! 850 00:37:37,358 --> 00:37:39,900 Maybe you'd be under new management or something! 851 00:37:39,900 --> 00:37:44,700 I'll have, what's the weirdest thing I could mix together? 852 00:37:44,700 --> 00:37:47,830 I'll, I'll get coffee and bacon, 853 00:37:47,830 --> 00:37:51,150 and I'll mix them myself if you don't want to. 854 00:37:51,150 --> 00:37:52,200 - I'm not going to mix them. 855 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,330 What you do at the booth is your own business, 856 00:37:54,330 --> 00:37:56,220 and if you don't like how we do things here, 857 00:37:56,220 --> 00:37:58,477 may I recommend the place next door? 858 00:37:58,477 --> 00:38:00,840 And you see there's a bizarre fusion place 859 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,987 called Novelty across the street. 860 00:38:02,987 --> 00:38:04,530 - Oh, hell yeah! 861 00:38:04,530 --> 00:38:06,843 - No, no! Nostalgia's better! 862 00:38:07,710 --> 00:38:09,690 - But there's all kinds of new stuff over there! 863 00:38:09,690 --> 00:38:12,122 - Oh, to hell with all of you! 864 00:38:12,122 --> 00:38:13,872 (group laughing) 865 00:38:13,872 --> 00:38:15,778 And says, anything for you, sir? 866 00:38:15,778 --> 00:38:17,192 - Just a calzone. 867 00:38:17,192 --> 00:38:20,026 (Brennan and Alex laughing) 868 00:38:20,026 --> 00:38:22,616 - Yeah, we got a calzone for sure. We've had that before. 869 00:38:22,616 --> 00:38:25,215 (players laughing) 870 00:38:25,215 --> 00:38:27,127 It's going to be a little bit of nicotine in there, 871 00:38:27,127 --> 00:38:29,439 because it was that year in college when, you know. 872 00:38:29,439 --> 00:38:31,156 (players laughing) 873 00:38:31,156 --> 00:38:32,970 So you guys all get served your food, 874 00:38:32,970 --> 00:38:35,612 but Conrad is wanted by what we now know 875 00:38:35,612 --> 00:38:39,988 to be the Avaricci family, but also the DA. 876 00:38:39,988 --> 00:38:42,647 So both ends of the legal-criminal spectrum 877 00:38:42,647 --> 00:38:45,480 So both ends of the legal-criminal spectrum 878 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,485 are attempting to kill Conrad. 879 00:38:48,485 --> 00:38:50,975 - Sure, and these are not people who 880 00:38:50,975 --> 00:38:55,658 generally work together, as far as we know. 881 00:38:55,658 --> 00:38:58,560 - I also, it could be nothing, 882 00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,500 just noticing that the phone lines are down, 883 00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:04,560 noticing that the eyes are closed. 884 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,783 Could be just, you know, a bad hangover. 885 00:39:07,783 --> 00:39:08,808 Sometimes that happens, 886 00:39:08,808 --> 00:39:10,487 to close down the phone lines. - Sure. 887 00:39:10,487 --> 00:39:12,950 - Could be, something's pretty wrong with the big man. 888 00:39:12,950 --> 00:39:15,970 I don't know how much time we have to figure this out. 889 00:39:15,970 --> 00:39:20,278 - So, I would like to use my troublemaker stat, which is, 890 00:39:20,278 --> 00:39:22,410 spend a Moxie to locate and receive help within reason 891 00:39:22,410 --> 00:39:25,560 and without making any stat checks from a criminal network. 892 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,990 - Hell yeah. - I want to get a sense of why did the, 893 00:39:27,990 --> 00:39:29,448 what else is going on in the city? 894 00:39:29,448 --> 00:39:31,617 What does the tendrils of the criminal underworld 895 00:39:31,617 --> 00:39:33,113 know is going on here? - Hell yeah. 896 00:39:33,113 --> 00:39:35,490 - Probably just by waving to someone. 897 00:39:35,490 --> 00:39:38,282 The spit in the hand guy. - The pervert. 898 00:39:38,282 --> 00:39:39,506 (players laughing) 899 00:39:39,506 --> 00:39:41,340 - So you see there's a guy sitting on a fire hydrant. 900 00:39:41,340 --> 00:39:42,450 He's taken his shoes off, 901 00:39:42,450 --> 00:39:44,085 he's put his hat on the ground in front of him, 902 00:39:44,085 --> 00:39:46,219 and is just spitting into his hand over and over again. 903 00:39:46,219 --> 00:39:47,944 (spitting) Still good! 904 00:39:47,944 --> 00:39:49,493 (group laughing) 905 00:39:49,493 --> 00:39:52,410 He goes, oh shit! You'll never see me again! 906 00:39:52,410 --> 00:39:55,590 He looks out and says, oh hey there! 907 00:39:55,590 --> 00:39:57,580 Danny Fucks, how's it going? (smooth jazz music) 908 00:39:57,580 --> 00:40:01,320 - Good, good. I wanted to bend your ear a little bit. 909 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:02,220 - Well! 910 00:40:02,220 --> 00:40:04,530 Don't threaten me with a good time. - Do not touch- 911 00:40:04,530 --> 00:40:07,680 - Yes, yes. Come a little bit closer, whisper in there, yes. 912 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:11,366 - Ooh, do it (creepily laughing). Do it. 913 00:40:11,366 --> 00:40:14,400 - The hell is going on here? The freeway collapsed. 914 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:15,600 - Yeah, I saw that. 915 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,630 There's been a couple of road closures around there. 916 00:40:18,630 --> 00:40:21,083 I mean, I've been sort of bebopping and skedaddling 917 00:40:21,083 --> 00:40:22,440 all over this bitty burg here, 918 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:23,977 but I'll tell you one thing, buster. 919 00:40:23,977 --> 00:40:27,330 These fuzz have been locking down a bunch of the roadways, 920 00:40:27,330 --> 00:40:30,450 the wires are down for a while, and they closed the eyes 921 00:40:30,450 --> 00:40:31,890 right after the road came down. 922 00:40:31,890 --> 00:40:34,243 - Oh, so you're telling me that they, 923 00:40:34,243 --> 00:40:36,763 that the orders came from up top to close the eyes? 924 00:40:36,763 --> 00:40:39,259 - Oh, Mayor Logic, that's for sure. - Hm. 925 00:40:39,259 --> 00:40:42,250 - But I'll tell you something else sort of funny. 926 00:40:42,250 --> 00:40:43,483 It all sort of st- 927 00:40:43,483 --> 00:40:45,613 There was already some trouble this morning. 928 00:40:45,613 --> 00:40:47,730 You know, down at Oblongata Station? 929 00:40:47,730 --> 00:40:50,070 - Yes. - We had some trains come in 930 00:40:50,070 --> 00:40:54,667 from the kidneys, of all places, loaded top to bottom. 931 00:40:54,667 --> 00:40:57,630 I'm not sure if you've seen, a lot of the dopamine spots 932 00:40:57,630 --> 00:41:00,528 around town are offering specials on adrenaline shots. 933 00:41:00,528 --> 00:41:02,178 City's absolutely flooded with it. 934 00:41:02,178 --> 00:41:03,750 It's all I've been drinking all day. 935 00:41:03,750 --> 00:41:06,390 - This explains a lot. Hm. 936 00:41:06,390 --> 00:41:08,940 You all heard that. You guys all hear that? 937 00:41:08,940 --> 00:41:11,250 - Oh yeah, I listen into every conversation. 938 00:41:11,250 --> 00:41:12,083 - Me too. 939 00:41:12,083 --> 00:41:13,050 - You hear that, Conrad, you little shit? 940 00:41:13,050 --> 00:41:14,340 Look at all the shit storm you've caused! 941 00:41:14,340 --> 00:41:16,924 - I don't know what that means! (players laughing) 942 00:41:16,924 --> 00:41:20,010 What are the messages from the kidneys? 943 00:41:20,010 --> 00:41:21,780 - Sounds like maybe we should go to the kidneys 944 00:41:21,780 --> 00:41:23,400 and find out, straight to the source! 945 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,210 - I mean, it sounds to me like there was 946 00:41:25,210 --> 00:41:27,718 a pretty severe fight or flight response that was triggered. 947 00:41:27,718 --> 00:41:30,473 Something, something spooked the big guy pretty bad. 948 00:41:30,473 --> 00:41:32,840 He's closing his eyes? He's flooded with adrenaline? 949 00:41:33,824 --> 00:41:36,952 The freeways are collapsing? This, 950 00:41:36,952 --> 00:41:39,899 something bad has happened to the big guy. 951 00:41:39,899 --> 00:41:41,325 - Out there? - [Trapp] Out there. 952 00:41:41,325 --> 00:41:43,916 - It's all my fault. I'm sorry, you guys. 953 00:41:43,916 --> 00:41:45,360 - That's not going to be enough, Conrad! 954 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:46,798 - Okay, you're right. 955 00:41:46,798 --> 00:41:48,281 - Back off, Fucks. 956 00:41:48,281 --> 00:41:49,639 (players laughing) 957 00:41:49,639 --> 00:41:52,965 - You like yelling at children a little bit too much. 958 00:41:52,965 --> 00:41:54,540 - I like yelling at this particular child 959 00:41:54,540 --> 00:41:56,070 because he deserves it! 960 00:41:56,070 --> 00:41:58,439 - You guys should know, I kind of like it, too. 961 00:41:58,439 --> 00:42:00,931 (group laughing) 962 00:42:00,931 --> 00:42:03,710 - We have an adversarial relationship. 963 00:42:03,710 --> 00:42:06,598 - Justin goes, that's right. Conrad loves shame. 964 00:42:06,598 --> 00:42:08,448 (players laughing) 965 00:42:08,448 --> 00:42:10,464 - Yeah. (laughing) - We know it- 966 00:42:10,464 --> 00:42:12,902 You're my best friend. - You're my best friend! 967 00:42:12,902 --> 00:42:15,460 (players laughing) 968 00:42:15,460 --> 00:42:19,380 - Now, the way I see it, this is all tied to that file. 969 00:42:19,380 --> 00:42:23,460 Seems like maybe we make that file go away, 970 00:42:23,460 --> 00:42:25,651 maybe a lot of these problems stop. 971 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,160 On the other hand, I'm a little more interested in knowing 972 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:31,350 what's in the file and why all these people are doing this, 973 00:42:31,350 --> 00:42:36,265 so I don't know, we could maybe, I don't know, Ms. Pulse? 974 00:42:36,265 --> 00:42:38,100 Would you like to destroy the file? 975 00:42:38,100 --> 00:42:40,908 - Well, I mean, if that's what you think is right. 976 00:42:40,908 --> 00:42:43,524 - Well, I mean, if that's what you think is right. 977 00:42:43,524 --> 00:42:45,232 But also, we could maybe... 978 00:42:47,130 --> 00:42:48,480 get him to open it. 979 00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:50,520 Sneak up to the eyes. - Yes. 980 00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:52,170 - See what's going on in there. 981 00:42:52,170 --> 00:42:54,390 - Impulse has gotten us this far. 982 00:42:54,390 --> 00:42:55,965 - That's pretty interesting. 983 00:42:55,965 --> 00:42:58,656 Can I do a snoop check to see.. 984 00:42:59,745 --> 00:43:01,078 - You can do any snoop checks you want 985 00:43:01,078 --> 00:43:02,119 to gain other information, 986 00:43:02,119 --> 00:43:05,469 but I think also, Hunch, you're feeling your nose twitching. 987 00:43:05,469 --> 00:43:08,061 but I think also, Hunch, you're feeling your nose twitching. 988 00:43:08,061 --> 00:43:09,360 You're on the case again. 989 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,907 You can feel things starting to come together. 990 00:43:11,907 --> 00:43:13,085 The information that's coming around 991 00:43:13,085 --> 00:43:15,490 is starting to really have that feeling of, ooh, 992 00:43:15,490 --> 00:43:17,580 this is not happenstance. 993 00:43:17,580 --> 00:43:19,471 I'm onto something here. 994 00:43:19,471 --> 00:43:21,330 So I'll also allow people, if you want to make snoop checks 995 00:43:21,330 --> 00:43:22,650 to get more information, that's great. 996 00:43:22,650 --> 00:43:27,650 You can also make savvy checks if you're interested in, 997 00:43:27,650 --> 00:43:29,430 like you were talking about, okay, can we go to the eyes? 998 00:43:29,430 --> 00:43:30,830 Can we go to something else? 999 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,340 If you want to make a savvy check 1000 00:43:33,340 --> 00:43:37,200 to remember resources within Mentopolis 1001 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:38,550 that you could avail yourself to, 1002 00:43:38,550 --> 00:43:40,440 that's also totally doable. 1003 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:41,942 - Yeah I will definitely do that. 1004 00:43:41,942 --> 00:43:44,008 - I want to do a savvy check to see if I could 1005 00:43:44,008 --> 00:43:46,740 convince the DA that I have killed this child 1006 00:43:46,740 --> 00:43:48,600 without actually killing this child. 1007 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:52,230 - Oh, okay, I'm going to call that a DC eight savvy check. 1008 00:43:52,230 --> 00:43:53,063 - Okay. 1009 00:43:54,300 --> 00:43:56,887 Can I get my plus three, because I'm defending a friend? 1010 00:43:56,887 --> 00:43:57,720 - (gasps) You have the 1011 00:43:57,720 --> 00:43:59,411 protector feature. - [Alex and Danielle] Aww. 1012 00:43:59,411 --> 00:44:01,510 (group laughing) 1013 00:44:01,510 --> 00:44:04,873 - A gentle giant! (players laughing) 1014 00:44:04,873 --> 00:44:08,040 - I love how scary we designed your character to be, 1015 00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:12,291 and it so quickly, we're at episode two, became the, aww! 1016 00:44:12,291 --> 00:44:13,599 (group laughing) 1017 00:44:13,599 --> 00:44:15,810 I swear to god, nothing fans of actual play 1018 00:44:15,810 --> 00:44:17,167 love more than a murderer. 1019 00:44:17,167 --> 00:44:18,583 (group laughing) 1020 00:44:18,583 --> 00:44:20,306 It's like, he's a good murderer! 1021 00:44:20,306 --> 00:44:21,139 (group laughing) 1022 00:44:21,139 --> 00:44:25,592 - He's our giant killy wubby. - [Brennan] Giant killy wubby! 1023 00:44:25,592 --> 00:44:26,459 Yes, you absolutely get the plus three. 1024 00:44:26,459 --> 00:44:28,440 - And you said it was eight? - [Brennan] It was eight, yeah. 1025 00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:30,540 - Still not great. Ooh I did it! 1026 00:44:30,540 --> 00:44:31,373 Nine. 1027 00:44:31,373 --> 00:44:35,720 - Hell yes, so I think you are aware that in the past, 1028 00:44:35,720 --> 00:44:38,730 because you can sometimes just mist people, 1029 00:44:38,730 --> 00:44:41,012 occasionally you can bring trophies, 1030 00:44:41,012 --> 00:44:42,447 so you would need some kind of trophy 1031 00:44:42,447 --> 00:44:43,860 or something along those lines, 1032 00:44:43,860 --> 00:44:46,487 but if you can bring a trophy that the DA would have 1033 00:44:46,487 --> 00:44:49,200 some reason to believe genuinely was the kid's, 1034 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,240 yeah, you could get away with it for sure. 1035 00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:54,480 - Can I ask you a question? - (sad and scared) Okay. 1036 00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:59,100 (players laugh) 1037 00:44:59,100 --> 00:45:03,265 - Is there anything that I could show someone 1038 00:45:03,265 --> 00:45:04,983 to make them think that I killed you? 1039 00:45:06,150 --> 00:45:07,710 - But you're not going to actually kill me? 1040 00:45:07,710 --> 00:45:08,910 - No. 1041 00:45:08,910 --> 00:45:11,010 - Okay. Um... 1042 00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:16,530 I have this pair of ice skates. 1043 00:45:16,530 --> 00:45:19,291 - Where do you keep them? - In my- In my house. 1044 00:45:19,291 --> 00:45:21,958 It's not really a house, but it's where I live, by Sugah's. 1045 00:45:21,958 --> 00:45:24,874 It's not really a house, but it's where I live, by Sugah's. 1046 00:45:26,322 --> 00:45:28,897 - Could I just bring somebody there and say 1047 00:45:30,542 --> 00:45:35,040 this was your house, and I swear I killed you? 1048 00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:39,420 - I guess so. You're not going to kill me for real? 1049 00:45:39,420 --> 00:45:40,350 - I'm not going to kill you. 1050 00:45:40,350 --> 00:45:42,780 For real, I'm not going to kill you. I'm a pretty 1051 00:45:42,780 --> 00:45:43,613 nice guy. - I do a snoop check to see 1052 00:45:43,613 --> 00:45:45,903 if he's really not going to kill. 1053 00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:48,720 - You look at The Fix. 1054 00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:50,526 You get the sensation of, 1055 00:45:51,630 --> 00:45:55,890 The Fix seems to be the attitude of, 1056 00:45:55,890 --> 00:46:00,120 when I want to kill people, it's something that happens. 1057 00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,790 - I think you'll know when The Fix wants to kill you. 1058 00:46:02,790 --> 00:46:04,772 - Yeah, he called me a butterfly, 1059 00:46:04,772 --> 00:46:06,851 but I didn't pay attention to the whole speech. 1060 00:46:06,851 --> 00:46:08,268 (players laughing lightly) 1061 00:46:08,268 --> 00:46:09,870 - So yeah, I think you are aware 1062 00:46:09,870 --> 00:46:13,255 that that would be proof enough for most people. 1063 00:46:13,255 --> 00:46:16,500 - I also kind of want to see what he thinks of that place. 1064 00:46:16,500 --> 00:46:17,355 - [Brennan] Yes. 1065 00:46:17,355 --> 00:46:19,500 - Maybe he would say something that would be helpful. 1066 00:46:19,500 --> 00:46:22,770 - You're trying to bait the DA, Fix? 1067 00:46:22,770 --> 00:46:24,278 - I know him pretty well. 1068 00:46:26,174 --> 00:46:28,380 - In my experience, the DA is happy 1069 00:46:28,380 --> 00:46:31,590 to ignore things that are inconvenient to him. 1070 00:46:31,590 --> 00:46:33,832 - That's kind of what I help with. 1071 00:46:33,832 --> 00:46:35,940 - There's a lot of other stuff I keep there. 1072 00:46:35,940 --> 00:46:38,775 I kind of would like to be able 1073 00:46:38,775 --> 00:46:40,980 to still hang onto it, so can I... 1074 00:46:40,980 --> 00:46:42,963 I just want to tidy up the place first, 1075 00:46:42,963 --> 00:46:44,030 if you're going to go look at it. 1076 00:46:44,030 --> 00:46:48,380 (players laughing) 1077 00:46:48,380 --> 00:46:50,040 - Yeah, maybe we can go check it out together. 1078 00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:51,458 - Okay. 1079 00:46:51,458 --> 00:46:53,253 - Detective Hunch is pretty curious 1080 00:46:53,253 --> 00:46:55,515 about what exactly is in this file at this point. 1081 00:46:55,515 --> 00:46:57,506 (serious, curious music) 1082 00:46:57,506 --> 00:46:59,832 Are there memory banks I can access, 1083 00:46:59,832 --> 00:47:04,242 or any place where I could get some more info 1084 00:47:04,242 --> 00:47:05,550 on what was actually in this file? 1085 00:47:05,550 --> 00:47:06,632 - Give me a savvy check. 1086 00:47:06,632 --> 00:47:09,420 We'll call it a difficulty of four gives you basic, 1087 00:47:09,420 --> 00:47:12,060 and we'll say six gives you advanced. 1088 00:47:12,060 --> 00:47:14,220 - I got a seven on my savvy for that. 1089 00:47:14,220 --> 00:47:15,780 - Very cool. Okay, awesome. 1090 00:47:15,780 --> 00:47:17,430 So I think you would know, too. 1091 00:47:17,430 --> 00:47:18,960 There are a couple places of authority 1092 00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,510 that you would be able to pretty easily access. 1093 00:47:21,510 --> 00:47:25,145 The main one is the official memory bank 1094 00:47:25,145 --> 00:47:29,005 that is located around Ammon's Horn in the Hippo Campus. 1095 00:47:29,005 --> 00:47:34,005 That is the big university location, 1096 00:47:34,413 --> 00:47:36,760 and that is the home to 1097 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:41,176 all of the big guy's biographical memories. 1098 00:47:41,176 --> 00:47:42,617 All of the like, 1099 00:47:42,617 --> 00:47:46,125 this is where we keep the story of this guy's life. 1100 00:47:46,125 --> 00:47:47,392 It's all right here. 1101 00:47:47,392 --> 00:47:51,180 So that's a great place to go to access memory, and again, 1102 00:47:51,180 --> 00:47:52,712 Mentopolis is a wild place, 1103 00:47:52,712 --> 00:47:53,693 because there are these locations 1104 00:47:53,693 --> 00:47:55,039 that are associated with this stuff, 1105 00:47:55,039 --> 00:47:56,310 but there's always a chance for things to go missing. 1106 00:47:56,310 --> 00:47:58,265 Memories go missing. 1107 00:47:58,265 --> 00:48:01,380 A lot of the brain's functions are very diffused. 1108 00:48:01,380 --> 00:48:03,600 But I think for that type of memory, 1109 00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:06,030 the Hippo Campus is a great place to go. 1110 00:48:06,030 --> 00:48:06,863 They're a university, 1111 00:48:06,863 --> 00:48:08,690 and then if you want to roll a savvy here- 1112 00:48:08,690 --> 00:48:09,998 - Oh yeah. - [Brennan] Yeah. 1113 00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:12,870 - Let's see, that's a five plus one, so a six. 1114 00:48:12,870 --> 00:48:14,717 - Six. That's the advanced information, great. 1115 00:48:14,717 --> 00:48:19,700 I think you are enough of a gumshoe 1116 00:48:19,700 --> 00:48:22,380 that there's two places for you to go. 1117 00:48:22,380 --> 00:48:27,380 So there's the central sort of visual processing centers 1118 00:48:27,439 --> 00:48:29,228 that are in the center of the brain 1119 00:48:29,228 --> 00:48:32,190 that you know are actually run side by side 1120 00:48:32,190 --> 00:48:35,070 with imagination and visual processing, 1121 00:48:35,070 --> 00:48:37,650 where everything the big guy is seeing, 1122 00:48:37,650 --> 00:48:39,133 they sort of all put together. 1123 00:48:39,133 --> 00:48:42,465 That place tends to get really tamped down by the bigwigs. 1124 00:48:42,465 --> 00:48:45,090 There's a huge governmental presence there. 1125 00:48:45,090 --> 00:48:49,213 There's also a place called De'lux Industrial, 1126 00:48:49,213 --> 00:48:53,705 and that is all the way back in Occipital Park 1127 00:48:53,705 --> 00:48:58,000 at the back of the brain, and De'lux Industrial 1128 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,825 is essentially the first plant where just raw light 1129 00:49:01,825 --> 00:49:03,984 is essentially the first plant where just raw light 1130 00:49:03,984 --> 00:49:08,250 comes in from the eyes and hits the brain first 1131 00:49:08,250 --> 00:49:11,313 before it goes and gets filtered off and refined 1132 00:49:11,313 --> 00:49:14,490 into what's actually going to be in focus 1133 00:49:14,490 --> 00:49:17,340 or what I remembered stuff looking like 1134 00:49:17,340 --> 00:49:19,740 versus what it actually looked like. 1135 00:49:19,740 --> 00:49:20,670 - Whether or not the dress 1136 00:49:20,670 --> 00:49:23,040 is blue and black or white and gold. 1137 00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:25,260 - De'lux Industrial just constantly has a dress 1138 00:49:25,260 --> 00:49:27,090 going from white and gold to blue and black. 1139 00:49:27,090 --> 00:49:28,786 - That's the logo that they have out front. 1140 00:49:28,786 --> 00:49:33,462 - Is there a place to check for other, 1141 00:49:33,462 --> 00:49:36,720 you know we mentioned that we've been getting trains 1142 00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:38,408 coming in from the kidneys, 1143 00:49:38,408 --> 00:49:43,383 there's been the boost in adrenaline and things like that. 1144 00:49:43,383 --> 00:49:46,575 Is there a way to be able to get to the kidneys, 1145 00:49:46,575 --> 00:49:49,560 communicate with that, or even stalk the train station 1146 00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,502 to see if there's any stuff that's coming in 1147 00:49:52,502 --> 00:49:54,030 from the kidneys to kind of see if, 1148 00:49:54,030 --> 00:49:56,340 since he's kind of doing his curiosity bit, 1149 00:49:56,340 --> 00:49:59,386 I wanted to go and check and see if there are any clues 1150 00:49:59,386 --> 00:50:00,708 about what's happening physically 1151 00:50:00,708 --> 00:50:03,270 that might be able to help us, or at least if nothing else, 1152 00:50:03,270 --> 00:50:05,960 we can maybe stop what is clearly happening, 1153 00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:07,342 a breakdown in the body. 1154 00:50:07,342 --> 00:50:10,063 - Hell yes, that's all at Oblongata Station. 1155 00:50:10,063 --> 00:50:12,090 You could head there right away and get down there 1156 00:50:12,090 --> 00:50:14,070 and talk to, you know the stationmaster down there. 1157 00:50:14,070 --> 00:50:16,360 You'd be able to talk. 1158 00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,290 Most of you have never left Mentopolis, and honestly, 1159 00:50:19,290 --> 00:50:21,270 people from Mentopolis kind of have an attitude 1160 00:50:21,270 --> 00:50:23,065 like they never want to leave Mentopolis. 1161 00:50:23,065 --> 00:50:24,930 You don't want to actually go to the kidneys. 1162 00:50:24,930 --> 00:50:27,480 But there's people at Oblongata Station 1163 00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:31,380 that they go to the kidneys, and you can talk to them. 1164 00:50:31,380 --> 00:50:33,988 So all of you here, a couple different ideas 1165 00:50:33,988 --> 00:50:37,740 have cropped up here in the diner together, 1166 00:50:37,740 --> 00:50:41,015 all of which seem potentially quite promising. 1167 00:50:41,015 --> 00:50:44,591 How do you want to handle this? What do you do? 1168 00:50:44,591 --> 00:50:48,950 This is fully, you know, now it's up to you gumshoes. 1169 00:50:48,950 --> 00:50:52,209 - Why don't we all divide and go our own separate ways, 1170 00:50:52,209 --> 00:50:53,283 (Trapp laughing) 1171 00:50:53,283 --> 00:50:56,070 and all of us come back together at the end? 1172 00:50:56,070 --> 00:50:57,210 - Brennan just licked his lips. 1173 00:50:57,210 --> 00:51:00,547 Did you see that? Flop sweat. - [Hank] There are six of us. 1174 00:51:00,547 --> 00:51:03,000 - Separate the party! Separate the party! 1175 00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,544 - Party wants to separate! All right! 1176 00:51:05,544 --> 00:51:06,961 (players laughing) 1177 00:51:06,961 --> 00:51:07,920 Justin looks and says, 1178 00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:09,720 I'll stick with Conrad no matter what. 1179 00:51:09,720 --> 00:51:11,907 - And I'll stick with you, Justin. 1180 00:51:11,907 --> 00:51:13,992 - Even if it's the last- - Don't say it again! 1181 00:51:13,992 --> 00:51:15,526 Please don't say it again, it's too sad! 1182 00:51:15,526 --> 00:51:18,560 - Even if it's our last day. - [Siobhan] Come on. 1183 00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:20,538 - [Brennan And Alex] You're my best friend. 1184 00:51:20,538 --> 00:51:22,823 - [Trapp] Goddammit. - [Hank] That's a lot, you guys. 1185 00:51:22,823 --> 00:51:25,080 - You see even the pervert outside starts crying 1186 00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,206 and goes, and I'll never see them again. 1187 00:51:27,206 --> 00:51:29,506 (players laughing) 1188 00:51:29,506 --> 00:51:30,630 Yeah, how do you guys want to split up? 1189 00:51:30,630 --> 00:51:35,630 - It feels like Dan is most concerned with... 1190 00:51:35,730 --> 00:51:37,710 physical survival, because without that, 1191 00:51:37,710 --> 00:51:40,780 then none of this stuff is going to matter after that. 1192 00:51:40,780 --> 00:51:44,310 I think we should go to the station and see what's going on, 1193 00:51:44,310 --> 00:51:46,350 get us out of this scrape that we're clearly in. 1194 00:51:46,350 --> 00:51:48,600 - All right, let's go to Oblongata Station. 1195 00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,700 We shall check out the kidneys. 1196 00:51:50,700 --> 00:51:53,490 - Hell yeah, you two take off for Oblongata Station. 1197 00:51:53,490 --> 00:51:54,540 How about the rest of you? 1198 00:51:54,540 --> 00:51:57,450 - I'd like to go visit your home. 1199 00:51:57,450 --> 00:51:59,100 - All right. - [Hank] See what you got there. 1200 00:51:59,100 --> 00:52:02,250 - Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting to know you better. 1201 00:52:02,250 --> 00:52:04,496 - I am impressed by your ability to trust me 1202 00:52:04,496 --> 00:52:06,995 (players laughing) 1203 00:52:06,995 --> 00:52:11,460 despite my femur-sized arm bones 1204 00:52:11,460 --> 00:52:15,224 and my previous attempts to kidnap you. 1205 00:52:15,224 --> 00:52:16,057 (players laughing) 1206 00:52:16,057 --> 00:52:19,465 - You are who you are, and... let's get on our way. 1207 00:52:19,465 --> 00:52:20,631 (players laughing) 1208 00:52:20,631 --> 00:52:24,234 - Then you just eat some coffee grounds out of your cup. 1209 00:52:24,234 --> 00:52:26,987 - I gotta get a few last bites in. 1210 00:52:26,987 --> 00:52:28,237 (players laughing) 1211 00:52:28,237 --> 00:52:30,449 - You see that the guy comes over and says, 1212 00:52:30,449 --> 00:52:33,740 I can get you a muffin, do you want a muffin? 1213 00:52:33,740 --> 00:52:36,630 - Yeah, to hold my coffee grounds? 1214 00:52:36,630 --> 00:52:38,958 - What, you want a bread bowl made out of a muffin 1215 00:52:38,958 --> 00:52:40,522 to hold coffee grounds that you eat? 1216 00:52:40,522 --> 00:52:42,330 - Yes, like a to go cup. 1217 00:52:42,330 --> 00:52:44,313 (players laughing near-silently) 1218 00:52:44,313 --> 00:52:46,265 - You know that stuff stunts your growth. 1219 00:52:46,265 --> 00:52:47,523 (players laughing) 1220 00:52:47,523 --> 00:52:48,660 - There's got to be a section of the brain 1221 00:52:48,660 --> 00:52:51,420 that's just weird inventions. 1222 00:52:51,420 --> 00:52:53,436 Wait, this could work! - A muffin? 1223 00:52:53,436 --> 00:52:56,254 - Not every one's a winner. 1224 00:52:56,254 --> 00:52:57,687 - Unbelievable. 1225 00:52:57,687 --> 00:52:59,940 Yeah, he says, here's a muffin hollowed out. 1226 00:52:59,940 --> 00:53:02,040 You can have that. That's great. 1227 00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,906 - Thank you so much. - You got it. 1228 00:53:04,906 --> 00:53:06,497 - Back to the old alma mater? 1229 00:53:06,497 --> 00:53:09,000 - Let's check it out. You're the client. 1230 00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:12,780 - Justin looks up and says, well, with the phone lines down, 1231 00:53:12,780 --> 00:53:15,272 if we find anything out, where should we meet back up? 1232 00:53:15,272 --> 00:53:16,105 - Oh. 1233 00:53:16,105 --> 00:53:16,950 - Listen, there's one place 1234 00:53:16,950 --> 00:53:19,784 whenever I don't know where to go, and that's Sugah's. 1235 00:53:19,784 --> 00:53:22,025 (players laughing) 1236 00:53:22,025 --> 00:53:24,120 We know Dan controls the joint. 1237 00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:26,238 If there's prying eyes, maybe it's a good place to go 1238 00:53:26,238 --> 00:53:28,050 where we have a little more control of the place. 1239 00:53:28,050 --> 00:53:30,390 - Police aren't going to go there twice in one day. 1240 00:53:30,390 --> 00:53:32,400 - That'd be crazy. - That would be crazy. 1241 00:53:32,400 --> 00:53:34,380 - There is a fourth location that you are aware of, 1242 00:53:34,380 --> 00:53:37,037 which is De'lux Industrial, so you could all go 1243 00:53:37,037 --> 00:53:38,515 do a thing- - Oh, I see. 1244 00:53:38,515 --> 00:53:40,726 - And then converge. 1245 00:53:40,726 --> 00:53:42,052 - [Siobhan] At De'lux Industrial. 1246 00:53:42,052 --> 00:53:42,930 - Yeah. - [Hank] Great. 1247 00:53:42,930 --> 00:53:43,763 - Sounds classy. 1248 00:53:43,763 --> 00:53:46,024 - That's how I'd do it if I was writing a story. 1249 00:53:46,024 --> 00:53:47,240 (players laughing) 1250 00:53:47,240 --> 00:53:49,710 - If I was writing a s... 1251 00:53:49,710 --> 00:53:50,968 Oh, shit! 1252 00:53:50,968 --> 00:53:52,868 (players laughing) 1253 00:53:52,868 --> 00:53:55,650 So with that, all of you take your leave, 1254 00:53:55,650 --> 00:53:59,640 venturing into the streets of Mentopolis. 1255 00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:02,010 We are going to move from Nostalgia's Diner, 1256 00:54:02,010 --> 00:54:04,320 and I think the first group we'll follow 1257 00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:07,290 is Anastasia and Dan 1258 00:54:07,290 --> 00:54:11,160 headed down to Oblongata Station. (ominous music) 1259 00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:13,244 This is way down by the brainstem, 1260 00:54:13,244 --> 00:54:15,960 and you can see huge arches 1261 00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:20,281 of a vast marble train station, voice coming over. 1262 00:54:20,281 --> 00:54:22,980 Welcome to Oblongata Station. Welcome, welcome. 1263 00:54:22,980 --> 00:54:26,010 And you see there's a bunch of nutrients 1264 00:54:26,010 --> 00:54:27,720 coming out of the train that are kind of marching 1265 00:54:27,720 --> 00:54:30,450 into the brain on a work visa 1266 00:54:30,450 --> 00:54:33,840 who are coming in to help out for the time being. 1267 00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:35,970 You see that the stationmaster's booth, 1268 00:54:35,970 --> 00:54:39,540 there's a sort of octagonal raised tower 1269 00:54:39,540 --> 00:54:42,740 that looks over these big marble staircases that come up. 1270 00:54:42,740 --> 00:54:45,660 You see that there are a lot of crates 1271 00:54:45,660 --> 00:54:48,330 moving off these huge, big locomotives 1272 00:54:48,330 --> 00:54:50,850 that you can see says Kidney Express on the side of it, 1273 00:54:50,850 --> 00:54:55,260 and big, big crates with that stenotype font on the side 1274 00:54:55,260 --> 00:54:57,720 saying adrenaline are all off on the side, and you see 1275 00:54:57,720 --> 00:55:01,560 porters moving them up towards the industrial lift. 1276 00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:03,360 As you approach, what is it that you do? 1277 00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,266 - You know this place better than I do. 1278 00:55:05,266 --> 00:55:07,230 Who should we be talking to? 1279 00:55:07,230 --> 00:55:09,810 - Well, I happen to have an in with the stationmaster. 1280 00:55:09,810 --> 00:55:10,643 - Oh, perfect. 1281 00:55:10,643 --> 00:55:12,630 - So I believe that we should definitely go up there. 1282 00:55:12,630 --> 00:55:15,547 I would suggest maybe keep some of your proclivities 1283 00:55:15,547 --> 00:55:17,946 I would suggest maybe keep some of your proclivities 1284 00:55:17,946 --> 00:55:19,340 a little more private. 1285 00:55:19,340 --> 00:55:21,511 - How dare you? Very well. 1286 00:55:21,511 --> 00:55:23,869 (players laughing) 1287 00:55:23,869 --> 00:55:25,240 By default. - Absolutely no. Okay. 1288 00:55:25,240 --> 00:55:29,095 - By default, anytime someone says something about Dan, 1289 00:55:29,095 --> 00:55:32,580 his first response, like a reflex, is how dare you? 1290 00:55:32,580 --> 00:55:34,140 Very well. 1291 00:55:34,140 --> 00:55:36,849 - So then we head over to the stationmaster's tower office. 1292 00:55:36,849 --> 00:55:39,473 - So then we head over to the stationmaster's tower office. 1293 00:55:39,473 --> 00:55:41,160 - As we walk up, I want to do a quick check. 1294 00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:44,970 Any illicit pleasure chemicals moving around here. 1295 00:55:44,970 --> 00:55:49,080 - Go ahead and give me, I'll say, snoop four. 1296 00:55:49,920 --> 00:55:52,230 - Four on the dot. - You look over. 1297 00:55:52,230 --> 00:55:55,730 I think on a four, you see an old nervous system messenger. 1298 00:55:55,730 --> 00:55:57,996 I think on a four, you see an old nervous system messenger. 1299 00:55:57,996 --> 00:55:59,980 You see he's got the postal outfit, 1300 00:55:59,980 --> 00:56:02,070 and it's got Nervous System on a big sash, 1301 00:56:02,070 --> 00:56:03,120 but he's a much older guy. 1302 00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:04,260 You rarely see him. 1303 00:56:04,260 --> 00:56:08,040 He normally reports to you, because he comes from, 1304 00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:09,780 there's no polite way to say this, 1305 00:56:09,780 --> 00:56:10,950 he comes from the genitalia. 1306 00:56:10,950 --> 00:56:15,270 He comes from the junk. But you see he's looking over. 1307 00:56:15,270 --> 00:56:16,980 This is Wilton. 1308 00:56:16,980 --> 00:56:20,214 So, you see Wilton looks over. 1309 00:56:20,214 --> 00:56:22,338 So, you see Wilton looks over. 1310 00:56:23,290 --> 00:56:25,020 - Was that written down? - What's that? 1311 00:56:25,020 --> 00:56:26,550 - Was that written down, or did that just- 1312 00:56:26,550 --> 00:56:28,680 - That just came to me. - Okay, great. 1313 00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:30,540 - You see he looks over and looks up 1314 00:56:30,540 --> 00:56:31,680 as you are looking away. 1315 00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:32,513 You head over. 1316 00:56:32,513 --> 00:56:36,180 Max Medulla, they are the station manager here. 1317 00:56:36,180 --> 00:56:37,500 You've known Max for a long time. 1318 00:56:37,500 --> 00:56:39,600 They're a very officious type, 1319 00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:41,940 but they are always a little bit pompous. 1320 00:56:41,940 --> 00:56:43,080 They're happy to answer questions 1321 00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:44,940 for the paper most of the time. 1322 00:56:44,940 --> 00:56:48,225 You see that Wilton sort of looks down. 1323 00:56:48,225 --> 00:56:52,380 Also on a four, I think you see that outside the station, 1324 00:56:52,380 --> 00:56:57,033 there are a couple of paddy wagons from the cops, 1325 00:56:57,033 --> 00:57:01,110 and I think you look over and are normally expecting to see, 1326 00:57:01,110 --> 00:57:04,010 you know, some uniformed officers might have a nightstick. 1327 00:57:05,340 --> 00:57:08,480 You see big, padded armor and visored helmets 1328 00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:10,763 You see big, padded armor and visored helmets 1329 00:57:10,763 --> 00:57:13,580 and these long batons and corrugated steel shields. 1330 00:57:13,580 --> 00:57:16,455 and these long batons and corrugated steel shields. 1331 00:57:16,455 --> 00:57:20,271 You recognize these as shock troopers, shock officers, 1332 00:57:20,271 --> 00:57:22,470 but as in psychological shock. - Yeah, right. 1333 00:57:22,470 --> 00:57:25,211 - You see shock written in big letters over their chests, 1334 00:57:25,211 --> 00:57:28,470 - You see shock written in big letters over their chests, 1335 00:57:28,470 --> 00:57:30,780 that are standing around these paddy wagons on the outside. 1336 00:57:30,780 --> 00:57:32,273 So you notice Wilton, 1337 00:57:32,273 --> 00:57:35,580 but Wilton doesn't appear to be arrested or anything. 1338 00:57:35,580 --> 00:57:38,640 You see these sort of shock officers 1339 00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:40,136 outside of the train station. 1340 00:57:40,136 --> 00:57:41,430 Anastasia, you're walking over 1341 00:57:41,430 --> 00:57:42,929 to the station manager, right? 1342 00:57:42,929 --> 00:57:43,762 - Mm-hm. 1343 00:57:43,762 --> 00:57:45,630 - I think I'm going to keep up with Anastasia. 1344 00:57:45,630 --> 00:57:47,160 - Cool, cool cool cool. 1345 00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:49,002 Max turns around to look at you. 1346 00:57:49,002 --> 00:57:52,500 They have their hair in a little bun 1347 00:57:52,500 --> 00:57:55,380 sort of tucked under their cap, sort of officious look. 1348 00:57:55,380 --> 00:57:58,080 They have pristine white gloves and a little whistle, 1349 00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:02,033 and you see behind them, they have these huge switches 1350 00:58:02,033 --> 00:58:04,500 that they can pull in states of emergency 1351 00:58:04,500 --> 00:58:07,140 to trigger reflexes on the body. 1352 00:58:07,140 --> 00:58:09,780 You see there's a reflex switch for one of the hands 1353 00:58:09,780 --> 00:58:11,730 and a reflex switch for something else, 1354 00:58:12,660 --> 00:58:16,020 absolute crisis stuff that needs to go out into the body. 1355 00:58:16,020 --> 00:58:20,640 You see Max looks at you and says, Anastasia! 1356 00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:23,040 Been long enough, sweetheart. How's it going? 1357 00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:25,410 - Oh, Max, it's been fantastic to see you. 1358 00:58:25,410 --> 00:58:26,280 Thank you so much. 1359 00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:28,350 I'm so happy that I was able to come down. 1360 00:58:28,350 --> 00:58:29,994 I just wanted to give a little visit, 1361 00:58:29,994 --> 00:58:31,800 maybe get some of the inside scoop, 1362 00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:33,300 a little bit of the know. 1363 00:58:33,300 --> 00:58:36,318 I have brought with me my friend, Dan F... 1364 00:58:36,318 --> 00:58:39,000 - Dan Fucks! Pleased to meet you! 1365 00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:40,110 - Oh. 1366 00:58:40,110 --> 00:58:41,455 Dan Fucks. 1367 00:58:41,455 --> 00:58:42,480 Okay. 1368 00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:43,980 - Yes, I do! Ha ha! 1369 00:58:43,980 --> 00:58:45,600 - Hey, pleasure to meet you as well. 1370 00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:47,580 You see Max is sort of an authority figure here, 1371 00:58:47,580 --> 00:58:49,710 but you're so deep near the brainstem 1372 00:58:49,710 --> 00:58:52,560 that people aren't too hoity-toity around here anyway, 1373 00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:56,639 so you see that they look at you and just go, all right. 1374 00:58:56,639 --> 00:58:58,518 Well, Danny, welcome down here. 1375 00:58:58,518 --> 00:59:01,500 Are you here to collect Wilton? He's looking a little lost. 1376 00:59:01,500 --> 00:59:05,199 I think he's waiting for his train back to the gonads. 1377 00:59:05,199 --> 00:59:06,765 (players laughing) 1378 00:59:06,765 --> 00:59:08,944 - We're here on far more important matters. 1379 00:59:08,944 --> 00:59:11,362 There's all kinds of hubbub in the city. 1380 00:59:11,362 --> 00:59:12,600 Tell them all about it. 1381 00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:14,190 We're trying to figure out what's going on. 1382 00:59:14,190 --> 00:59:18,030 - Yeah, so she turns over to them and says, 1383 00:59:18,030 --> 00:59:23,030 Max, I am hearing some things through the vine. 1384 00:59:23,790 --> 00:59:25,663 I'm hearing that you have been getting 1385 00:59:25,663 --> 00:59:29,737 a lot of deliveries coming from the kidneys. 1386 00:59:29,737 --> 00:59:33,150 - Oh, I mean, nothing more than normal, you know? 1387 00:59:33,150 --> 00:59:35,048 Go ahead and give me a snoop. (Trapp laughing) 1388 00:59:35,048 --> 00:59:36,763 - Snoop, snoop, snoop! 1389 00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:39,900 - I'll roll to set the DC. 1390 00:59:39,900 --> 00:59:41,880 The DC here is going to be a five. 1391 00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:43,527 - Oh, then I'm halving it. 1392 00:59:43,527 --> 00:59:46,047 - A little bead of sweat 1393 00:59:46,047 --> 00:59:48,330 collects at the corner of Max's brow 1394 00:59:48,330 --> 00:59:49,740 as they attempt to sort of throw you. 1395 00:59:49,740 --> 00:59:52,592 Yeah, I mean, business as usual, you know? 1396 00:59:52,592 --> 00:59:53,533 (tense music) 1397 00:59:53,533 --> 00:59:55,720 Oblongata Station's running like clockwork, 1398 00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:57,143 you know what I mean? 1399 00:59:57,143 --> 01:00:00,360 You know, we, you know, we got a message from up top. 1400 01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:02,590 There's this road. You know what you should be looking into? 1401 01:00:02,590 --> 01:00:06,315 These road collapses. What's going on there, you know? 1402 01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:09,503 - That's definitely something that I'm interested in. 1403 01:00:09,503 --> 01:00:11,380 Thank you so much for, you know, 1404 01:00:11,380 --> 01:00:13,513 leading me towards another great story. 1405 01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:16,890 I do see that there seems to be 1406 01:00:16,890 --> 01:00:19,950 a lot of increased police activity. 1407 01:00:19,950 --> 01:00:24,570 - Oh, well, yeah, and Mentopolis's finest, 1408 01:00:24,570 --> 01:00:26,760 you know, it's always great because, you know, 1409 01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:29,096 a lot of things come in from the nervous system 1410 01:00:29,096 --> 01:00:30,533 and, you know, we... 1411 01:00:31,380 --> 01:00:35,070 They're always here to help us kind of sort out, 1412 01:00:35,070 --> 01:00:37,807 make sure everyone coming in has their paperwork 1413 01:00:37,807 --> 01:00:39,003 cleared out- - Max. 1414 01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:41,163 Max. 1415 01:00:42,300 --> 01:00:44,400 You're not going to do this with me, are you? 1416 01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:46,693 - Go ahead and give me a slick check. 1417 01:00:46,693 --> 01:00:48,480 We'll call this a DC... 1418 01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:51,475 I'll call this a DC seven. 1419 01:00:51,475 --> 01:00:52,777 - I have to actually roll for this. 1420 01:00:52,777 --> 01:00:55,105 Okay. Come on, baby. 1421 01:00:56,442 --> 01:00:58,440 Yes, I rolled a six, 1422 01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:01,410 and then I've got a plus two, so that gets me an eight. 1423 01:01:01,410 --> 01:01:06,410 - So you see Max looks at you and they go, look, Anastasia. 1424 01:01:06,810 --> 01:01:09,420 You know, yeah, the cops are here, (heartbeat pumping) 1425 01:01:09,420 --> 01:01:12,885 but, you know, sometimes we need to know if the reason 1426 01:01:12,885 --> 01:01:15,552 the hairs are moving on the arm is because it's windy, 1427 01:01:15,552 --> 01:01:16,987 or if there's a bug, you know? 1428 01:01:16,987 --> 01:01:19,963 So they gotta sort out what from what and... 1429 01:01:21,330 --> 01:01:25,080 Look, there's a lot of... 1430 01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:28,380 Look, trains have been coming in from the kidneys all day, 1431 01:01:28,380 --> 01:01:33,380 but that's not the main story here. 1432 01:01:33,565 --> 01:01:35,820 You know, we got crates and crates of adrenaline coming in. 1433 01:01:35,820 --> 01:01:37,440 It's going all over the city. 1434 01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:39,180 It's replaced every other shipment 1435 01:01:39,180 --> 01:01:40,880 of anything else coming in, but... 1436 01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:44,839 Those shock troopers came in and uh... 1437 01:01:46,950 --> 01:01:49,740 There was a smaller passenger train. 1438 01:01:49,740 --> 01:01:52,200 They've taken it off the yard already. 1439 01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:54,935 They wouldn't let the doors open until they were in place. 1440 01:01:54,935 --> 01:01:58,590 Those cops got on board, and they just went to work, 1441 01:01:58,590 --> 01:02:00,810 started clubbing away inside that train. 1442 01:02:00,810 --> 01:02:02,640 I don't know who was in there, 1443 01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:05,370 but it came from not far away. 1444 01:02:05,370 --> 01:02:08,280 It wasn't a long distance locomotive. 1445 01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:11,691 Judging by the look of it, I'd say it came from the scalp. 1446 01:02:11,691 --> 01:02:13,095 - The scalp? 1447 01:02:13,095 --> 01:02:15,070 - If I had to guess. I mean, short distance. 1448 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:19,533 - Max, are you keeping yourself safe? 1449 01:02:21,049 --> 01:02:22,680 - I try to keep my nose out of other people's business. 1450 01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:24,240 This is all off the record, by the way. 1451 01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:26,760 - Max, have I ever? 1452 01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:28,110 - Occasionally, yeah, for sure. 1453 01:02:28,110 --> 01:02:29,760 - Actually yes, I remember reading, 1454 01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:31,110 actually, several articles. 1455 01:02:32,010 --> 01:02:34,470 - Have I ever, recently? 1456 01:02:34,470 --> 01:02:37,728 - Yeah, I guess not recently, depending on your definition. 1457 01:02:37,728 --> 01:02:40,924 But yeah, look, just... 1458 01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:45,390 Look, yeah, I don't know what those troopers 1459 01:02:45,390 --> 01:02:46,980 are doing waiting outside. 1460 01:02:46,980 --> 01:02:50,640 They dragged a bunch of people off the train in handcuffs. 1461 01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:52,233 But if you want to take a look at the train, 1462 01:02:52,233 --> 01:02:54,060 it got taken off the yard and put into one of the hangars 1463 01:02:54,060 --> 01:02:57,766 out past platform nine. 1464 01:02:57,766 --> 01:03:01,080 - All right, so I go to shake their hand. 1465 01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:03,360 Thank you. Once again, thank you so much. 1466 01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:04,710 This has been such a pleasant visit. 1467 01:03:04,710 --> 01:03:06,510 It's always great when I get to see you. 1468 01:03:06,510 --> 01:03:08,430 Smiling extra big in case 1469 01:03:08,430 --> 01:03:10,287 any of the cops or shock troopers see them talking. 1470 01:03:10,287 --> 01:03:12,450 - You see Max looks around and says, 1471 01:03:12,450 --> 01:03:14,670 yeah, always happy to talk 1472 01:03:14,670 --> 01:03:18,360 about the station... 1473 01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:21,390 janitorial initiative! 1474 01:03:21,390 --> 01:03:23,250 - (enthusiastically) I love toilets! 1475 01:03:23,250 --> 01:03:25,362 - (enthusiastically) Me too! Gotta shit! 1476 01:03:25,362 --> 01:03:30,362 (players laughing) 1477 01:03:30,630 --> 01:03:32,430 - All right, come on, Mr. F. 1478 01:03:32,430 --> 01:03:35,240 - Sounds like we need to sneak into this rail yard, 1479 01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:37,410 - That's what it sounds like. - And get a look at this train. 1480 01:03:37,410 --> 01:03:39,420 I'll cause a distraction! 1481 01:03:39,420 --> 01:03:40,980 - Hell yeah, if you want to cause a distraction, 1482 01:03:40,980 --> 01:03:42,745 that will absolutely way lower 1483 01:03:42,745 --> 01:03:44,548 the difficulty of your sneak roll. 1484 01:03:44,548 --> 01:03:46,200 - So I'm going to go straight up to Wilton 1485 01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:48,360 and just backhand slap him. (slapping sound) 1486 01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:49,193 What are you doing here? 1487 01:03:49,193 --> 01:03:50,520 How dare you show your face around here 1488 01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:52,485 in the brain, Wilton! 1489 01:03:52,485 --> 01:03:53,318 - Mister- 1490 01:03:53,318 --> 01:03:54,420 - How long have you been waiting here? 1491 01:03:54,420 --> 01:03:56,940 - Mr. Fucks, hello! 1492 01:03:56,940 --> 01:03:59,507 I came in from the nut sack! 1493 01:03:59,507 --> 01:04:00,806 (players laughing) 1494 01:04:00,806 --> 01:04:03,390 - I can see that. You're worse for wear. 1495 01:04:03,390 --> 01:04:06,000 - I got a package they gave me to deliver 1496 01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:09,840 to bring right to you in case we're being fondled! 1497 01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:14,430 But maybe, you know, we're at work, 1498 01:04:14,430 --> 01:04:18,180 but maybe someone's become very inappropriate! 1499 01:04:18,180 --> 01:04:20,732 Maybe we're about to get laid in the office! 1500 01:04:20,732 --> 01:04:22,170 It's hard to say! 1501 01:04:22,170 --> 01:04:24,337 - I'll take that from you and reprimand you 1502 01:04:24,337 --> 01:04:27,082 greatly and loudly, so that everyone looks at us! 1503 01:04:27,082 --> 01:04:29,974 (players laughing) 1504 01:04:29,974 --> 01:04:32,913 - While this is happening, I start doing that thing 1505 01:04:32,913 --> 01:04:35,093 that they do in movies where you press yourself- 1506 01:04:35,093 --> 01:04:36,090 - Oh yeah. 1507 01:04:36,090 --> 01:04:39,960 - Press yourself up against brick, slowly look around. 1508 01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:42,870 I've got my hat down. I'm hiding in the shadows 1509 01:04:42,870 --> 01:04:45,660 and just kind of moving side to side, 1510 01:04:45,660 --> 01:04:47,873 I guess like the aliens in Alien Invaders 1511 01:04:47,873 --> 01:04:49,200 where you can only move side to side. 1512 01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:50,370 So I'm doing a little bit of that 1513 01:04:50,370 --> 01:04:52,653 and then a little bit of up and then a little bit back 1514 01:04:52,653 --> 01:04:54,570 until I'm kind of close enough 1515 01:04:54,570 --> 01:04:57,113 so that I can get to the train, in which case 1516 01:04:57,113 --> 01:05:01,200 I just start crouching down and staying down low. 1517 01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:02,640 - Go ahead, give me a slick check 1518 01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:05,040 as you attempt to get everyone's attention away. 1519 01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:08,820 - [Trapp] No problem. - That is an eight. 1520 01:05:08,820 --> 01:05:11,257 Sorry, yes, that was a nine, 1521 01:05:11,257 --> 01:05:13,500 and I'm going to spend two to put it up to an 11. 1522 01:05:13,500 --> 01:05:14,760 - Ooh, hell yeah! 1523 01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:17,040 So that's going to bring the DC of your sneak check 1524 01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:18,960 all the way down to a three, but I will say 1525 01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:21,000 it's a snap decision, so I'm going to ask that you roll. 1526 01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,680 - Okay, except that I have nerves of steel, 1527 01:05:23,680 --> 01:05:25,418 so I'm going to spend one Moxie 1528 01:05:25,418 --> 01:05:27,210 to treat a snap decision as a planned action. 1529 01:05:27,210 --> 01:05:29,226 - Ooh! Nerves of steel, 1530 01:05:29,226 --> 01:05:32,259 our fearless reporter Anastasia Tension! (players ooh and wow) 1531 01:05:32,259 --> 01:05:33,325 (Danielle laughing) 1532 01:05:33,325 --> 01:05:34,950 Hell yeah, so having that gets you to the three? 1533 01:05:34,950 --> 01:05:37,244 - That gets me there. - Hell yes. 1534 01:05:37,244 --> 01:05:41,250 Anastasia, a shadow to the wall, the attention of this mind 1535 01:05:41,250 --> 01:05:43,530 moves throughout Oblongata Station, 1536 01:05:43,530 --> 01:05:46,320 and you sneak across the rail yard. (sneaky stealthy music) 1537 01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:48,780 Long shadows. Tropes, tropes, tropes. 1538 01:05:48,780 --> 01:05:50,730 (all whispering "tropes") 1539 01:05:50,730 --> 01:05:52,978 Steam rising from the locomotives. (steam hissing) 1540 01:05:52,978 --> 01:05:55,200 It's steamy down here at the brainstem. 1541 01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:56,582 - You walk through the steam! Ooh. 1542 01:05:56,582 --> 01:05:57,848 (Danielle makes a hissing noise) 1543 01:05:57,848 --> 01:06:01,440 - Come out, your wonderful trilby jaunty on your head 1544 01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:03,481 as you, lady reporter finds out. 1545 01:06:03,481 --> 01:06:05,700 You see the wide open doors of the train car here. 1546 01:06:05,700 --> 01:06:07,770 Are you approaching with speed in mind 1547 01:06:07,770 --> 01:06:09,090 or with stealth in mind? 1548 01:06:09,090 --> 01:06:10,200 - I'm approaching with stealth in mind. 1549 01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:14,361 - Okay, go ahead, DC four sneak roll. 1550 01:06:14,361 --> 01:06:16,007 - Is this planned or is this- 1551 01:06:16,007 --> 01:06:17,700 - [Brennan] I'll say because you have that distraction, 1552 01:06:17,700 --> 01:06:18,720 this is planned. 1553 01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:19,553 - Okay, then I'm going to halve it. 1554 01:06:19,553 --> 01:06:21,518 - Cool, halve it, stay to the shadows. 1555 01:06:21,518 --> 01:06:24,395 You manage to sneak past, 1556 01:06:24,395 --> 01:06:28,103 and you see the train pulled away, 1557 01:06:28,103 --> 01:06:30,570 and you go and look at the serial number on the outside. 1558 01:06:30,570 --> 01:06:33,318 Go ahead and give me a savvy check. 1559 01:06:33,318 --> 01:06:36,475 We'll call it a DC three savvy. 1560 01:06:36,475 --> 01:06:39,150 - I'm gonna halve it. - Hell yeah, great. 1561 01:06:39,150 --> 01:06:40,530 This is exactly what you're meant to do. 1562 01:06:40,530 --> 01:06:42,060 You are a reporter, 1563 01:06:42,060 --> 01:06:44,640 all of this is stuff that is right in your wheelhouse. 1564 01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:45,473 You look at the numbers 1565 01:06:45,473 --> 01:06:47,100 up on the side of the train coming in. 1566 01:06:47,100 --> 01:06:50,640 You do recognize this. This is a nervous system local. 1567 01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:52,380 This comes in from the scalp. 1568 01:06:52,380 --> 01:06:53,880 These used to come in all the time 1569 01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:55,739 when you covered the dandruff story. 1570 01:06:55,739 --> 01:06:57,547 (players laughing) 1571 01:06:57,547 --> 01:06:59,730 When you were doing feedback on the dandruff story, 1572 01:06:59,730 --> 01:07:00,900 you would get quotes from people 1573 01:07:00,900 --> 01:07:02,130 coming off this train all the time. 1574 01:07:02,130 --> 01:07:04,020 You're like, that's from the fucking scalp! 1575 01:07:04,020 --> 01:07:06,860 You go around. Give me a snoop check. 1576 01:07:06,860 --> 01:07:09,208 You can halve it, but I'll say that 1577 01:07:09,208 --> 01:07:10,530 we'll put two different tiers here. 1578 01:07:10,530 --> 01:07:13,483 So there's a difficulty eight, 1579 01:07:13,483 --> 01:07:15,164 and there's also a difficulty 12. 1580 01:07:15,164 --> 01:07:18,090 The eight is basic, and the 12 is advanced information. 1581 01:07:18,090 --> 01:07:20,190 - So the eight I will go ahead and halve. 1582 01:07:20,190 --> 01:07:21,223 - [Brennan] Okay, great. - I've got that. 1583 01:07:21,223 --> 01:07:22,140 The 12, I do have to roll for. 1584 01:07:22,140 --> 01:07:24,348 - Cool, go for it. - Come on, baby! 1585 01:07:27,780 --> 01:07:30,000 That is a four. 1586 01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:31,650 - No worries. 1587 01:07:31,650 --> 01:07:33,090 - Oh, you shouldn't have smiled that big. 1588 01:07:33,090 --> 01:07:34,337 Why would you smile that big? 1589 01:07:34,337 --> 01:07:36,768 - [Freddie] So happy. - All's well, all's well. 1590 01:07:36,768 --> 01:07:40,710 So on that eight, you go see the open doors of the train. 1591 01:07:40,710 --> 01:07:43,898 As you look down on that eight snoop check, 1592 01:07:43,898 --> 01:07:47,925 you see blood dripping on the stairs of the train. 1593 01:07:47,925 --> 01:07:52,650 As you walk in, you see the commotion of incredible violence 1594 01:07:52,650 --> 01:07:57,000 from these shock officers that boarded the train, clearly. 1595 01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:00,253 As you walk into the back, you hear... (tense, sorrowful music) 1596 01:08:00,253 --> 01:08:05,036 (breathing raggedly) 1597 01:08:05,036 --> 01:08:06,810 Looking between the seats, 1598 01:08:06,810 --> 01:08:08,902 somewhere that must have been missed, 1599 01:08:08,902 --> 01:08:11,490 you see, wearing the postal service uniform, 1600 01:08:11,490 --> 01:08:14,280 the same one that Wilton is wearing out by the platform, 1601 01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:17,022 you see there is a young nervous system messenger, courier, 1602 01:08:17,022 --> 01:08:19,955 you see there is a young nervous system messenger, courier, 1603 01:08:19,955 --> 01:08:22,957 who looks up at you and goes, 1604 01:08:22,957 --> 01:08:25,448 (gasping for breath) 1605 01:08:25,448 --> 01:08:27,281 H- Help. 1606 01:08:28,410 --> 01:08:29,526 Help me. 1607 01:08:30,480 --> 01:08:33,805 And you see that the messenger's face is taut and angular. 1608 01:08:33,805 --> 01:08:36,438 And you see that the messenger's face is taut and angular. 1609 01:08:36,438 --> 01:08:39,450 There's a serrated surface to their nose. 1610 01:08:39,450 --> 01:08:42,030 Their hands are made of broken glass, 1611 01:08:42,030 --> 01:08:45,612 and you see this is a pain responder 1612 01:08:46,770 --> 01:08:51,510 who just looks up and says, who are you? 1613 01:08:51,510 --> 01:08:54,744 - How are you? My name is Stacy Fakename. 1614 01:08:54,744 --> 01:08:57,252 (players laughing) 1615 01:08:57,252 --> 01:09:01,080 - Hi, Ms. Fakename. I gotta get... 1616 01:09:01,080 --> 01:09:02,940 I gotta get... 1617 01:09:02,940 --> 01:09:07,147 I gotta get this to the Daily Observer. 1618 01:09:07,147 --> 01:09:09,000 I gotta... 1619 01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:13,440 I gotta get this... to... the editor. 1620 01:09:13,440 --> 01:09:14,880 They need to know. 1621 01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:18,390 - Okay, okay, I have an in at the Daily Observer. 1622 01:09:18,390 --> 01:09:19,223 I'll take that. 1623 01:09:19,223 --> 01:09:20,715 (Freddie and Hank laughing) 1624 01:09:20,715 --> 01:09:25,330 - The form in front of you begins to mist, 1625 01:09:25,330 --> 01:09:27,487 and as it does, you hold this, 1626 01:09:27,487 --> 01:09:32,487 and this dying messenger looks up at you, 1627 01:09:32,520 --> 01:09:35,723 having done the one thing they were supposed to do. 1628 01:09:35,723 --> 01:09:40,348 You open the message to look at it. 1629 01:09:41,940 --> 01:09:43,920 We're in pain. 1630 01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:47,040 The back of our head. We're bleeding. 1631 01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:50,430 And you feel in your body, as a being made of attention, 1632 01:09:50,430 --> 01:09:55,200 suddenly, some part of Elias Hodge's brain 1633 01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:57,480 knows he's just sustained a head injury, 1634 01:09:57,480 --> 01:10:00,752 and all of a sudden, the collapsed highways. 1635 01:10:00,752 --> 01:10:03,485 You immediately know, 1636 01:10:03,485 --> 01:10:05,759 it's, it's blunt trauma to the head, 1637 01:10:05,759 --> 01:10:09,171 and you can feel from this message, you have a sense that 1638 01:10:09,171 --> 01:10:11,220 this is going to start bleeding profusely. 1639 01:10:11,220 --> 01:10:14,910 You have a sense of, all this bad stuff is about to happen. 1640 01:10:14,910 --> 01:10:18,930 But all that you have right now is this initial report 1641 01:10:18,930 --> 01:10:21,920 just from this one thing on the scalp. 1642 01:10:21,920 --> 01:10:22,830 Because it's the nervous system, 1643 01:10:22,830 --> 01:10:24,240 there's no visual information, 1644 01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:27,045 there's no other sensory information attached to it, 1645 01:10:27,045 --> 01:10:29,640 but you know that all those shock officers 1646 01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:31,320 came in and tried to clear out, 1647 01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:35,130 and there must have been a ton of these pain couriers 1648 01:10:35,130 --> 01:10:37,485 in here that have just been arrested. 1649 01:10:37,485 --> 01:10:42,450 - (sighs) Okay, I look down at the courier. 1650 01:10:42,450 --> 01:10:44,251 Hey, are you still with us? 1651 01:10:44,251 --> 01:10:45,817 (whoosh, pop) 1652 01:10:48,348 --> 01:10:49,633 (Danielle sighs) 1653 01:10:49,633 --> 01:10:51,300 - Looking at the message in your hand, is there anything 1654 01:10:51,300 --> 01:10:53,850 that you would want to try to investigate from there? 1655 01:10:53,850 --> 01:10:55,860 - If we've got a brain injury, and that's doing 1656 01:10:55,860 --> 01:10:58,393 the pain receptors and everything like that, 1657 01:10:59,760 --> 01:11:03,180 I think I'm going to go back over to Mr. Fucks. 1658 01:11:03,180 --> 01:11:05,040 - Yeah, you begin to head back over to Mr. Fucks. 1659 01:11:05,040 --> 01:11:07,683 Give me one last savvy check. Call it a DC five. 1660 01:11:10,020 --> 01:11:11,729 - One. - Oop! 1661 01:11:11,729 --> 01:11:13,240 (ball sliding on a track) 1662 01:11:13,240 --> 01:11:14,240 - [Danielle] Hi, buddy. 1663 01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:15,248 (ball clanks) 1664 01:11:15,248 --> 01:11:18,000 - I think you have a hard time looking at this. 1665 01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:20,730 Again, you're attention. You're about finding stuff out. 1666 01:11:20,730 --> 01:11:23,162 Looking at this and trying to analyze it, 1667 01:11:23,162 --> 01:11:27,180 I think you have a sense of nervousness and dread 1668 01:11:27,180 --> 01:11:30,773 because you can't tell how bad this injury is. 1669 01:11:30,773 --> 01:11:33,600 Head wounds bleed a lot. It bleeding doesn't tell you much. 1670 01:11:33,600 --> 01:11:36,840 It could just be something totally survivable 1671 01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:39,717 and superficial, or this could be 1672 01:11:39,717 --> 01:11:42,475 like you are in the last moments of Mentopolis, 1673 01:11:42,475 --> 01:11:44,040 if this is a huge club 1674 01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:46,110 coming over the back of Elias Hodge's head. 1675 01:11:46,110 --> 01:11:48,810 As you head back to the platform, you're talking to Wilton. 1676 01:11:48,810 --> 01:11:50,190 - Yeah, should we finish up here with Wilton? 1677 01:11:50,190 --> 01:11:51,023 - [Brennan] Yeah. 1678 01:11:51,023 --> 01:11:52,498 (players laughing) 1679 01:11:52,498 --> 01:11:53,940 - I'm still in distraction mode, 1680 01:11:53,940 --> 01:11:56,401 so it's like, Wilton, you old, so you've- 1681 01:11:56,401 --> 01:11:59,858 This is far less than we agreed upon! You're a con man! 1682 01:11:59,858 --> 01:12:01,020 - I'm not a con man. 1683 01:12:01,020 --> 01:12:05,097 There's something nuzzling the base of the shaft. 1684 01:12:05,097 --> 01:12:08,010 - I look like I go to strike, but I pull Wilton 1685 01:12:08,010 --> 01:12:11,197 into a tight embrace and I start whispering in his ear. 1686 01:12:11,197 --> 01:12:12,870 How's the family? How's the kids? 1687 01:12:12,870 --> 01:12:15,210 - Oh, they're good. They're all fine. 1688 01:12:15,210 --> 01:12:17,415 It's sweaty down there, but it's- 1689 01:12:17,415 --> 01:12:19,830 - Spermatozoa production going all right? 1690 01:12:19,830 --> 01:12:22,980 - Oh, there's so much sperm down there. 1691 01:12:22,980 --> 01:12:25,615 There's actually kind of too much. We need to- 1692 01:12:25,615 --> 01:12:27,495 We probably should do something. 1693 01:12:27,495 --> 01:12:29,610 - Listen, listen, listen, listen. 1694 01:12:29,610 --> 01:12:31,290 Just keep it up. It'll happen. 1695 01:12:31,290 --> 01:12:32,850 It'll happen one day, you and I both know it. 1696 01:12:32,850 --> 01:12:34,418 I love you, brother! 1697 01:12:34,418 --> 01:12:35,713 - I love you so much. 1698 01:12:35,713 --> 01:12:39,450 Listen, there's something that is digging a little bit in. 1699 01:12:39,450 --> 01:12:42,291 It's really heavy, and it's kind of buzzing. 1700 01:12:42,291 --> 01:12:43,507 (players laughing) 1701 01:12:43,507 --> 01:12:46,242 - This is not what I expected to hear, brother. 1702 01:12:46,242 --> 01:12:47,975 - You're my brother. - That's right. 1703 01:12:47,975 --> 01:12:51,267 - Can we talk to someone at City Hall and see 1704 01:12:51,267 --> 01:12:55,494 if maybe we could make a friend that'll touch the privates? 1705 01:12:55,494 --> 01:12:57,002 (players laughing) 1706 01:12:57,002 --> 01:13:00,198 - I know the people upstairs are working on that. 1707 01:13:00,198 --> 01:13:02,593 It's the thing that was foremost on the mind, I assure you. 1708 01:13:02,593 --> 01:13:05,850 - I hear bad news all the time, like we're working! 1709 01:13:05,850 --> 01:13:08,220 - Listen, we just have to get through this scrape first. 1710 01:13:08,220 --> 01:13:10,080 One day, though, one day it'll happen. 1711 01:13:10,080 --> 01:13:12,133 - I think we should quit our job 1712 01:13:12,133 --> 01:13:14,512 and just concentrate on fucking. 1713 01:13:14,512 --> 01:13:15,487 (players laughing) 1714 01:13:15,487 --> 01:13:17,460 - Listen, me too, my friend. Listen, me too, my friend. 1715 01:13:17,460 --> 01:13:18,600 But you know how it is up here 1716 01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:20,370 in the big city, my hands are tied. 1717 01:13:20,370 --> 01:13:23,490 - All those Cortex City hobnobs don't know 1718 01:13:23,490 --> 01:13:26,242 what real working folk deal with every day! 1719 01:13:26,242 --> 01:13:27,745 - They're out of touch with the common people! You're right! 1720 01:13:27,745 --> 01:13:29,986 - We're drowning in cum down there! 1721 01:13:29,986 --> 01:13:30,885 (players laughing) 1722 01:13:30,885 --> 01:13:31,718 - They're out of touch! 1723 01:13:31,718 --> 01:13:33,690 One day, you and I will stage a revolution 1724 01:13:33,690 --> 01:13:35,268 the likes of which these people have never seen before! 1725 01:13:35,268 --> 01:13:39,893 - The people will rise, and there will be orgasms for all! 1726 01:13:39,893 --> 01:13:41,475 - We'll finally achieve eternal happiness!- 1727 01:13:41,475 --> 01:13:42,883 Ooh, ooh ooh. My- 1728 01:13:42,883 --> 01:13:44,806 - Yeah, you come up. - [Freddie] Hello, hello! 1729 01:13:44,806 --> 01:13:46,634 You heard nothing! You heard nothing! 1730 01:13:46,634 --> 01:13:50,370 - Sorry, this man's not my brother. He's mean as hell. 1731 01:13:50,370 --> 01:13:52,070 - I don't know this person at all. 1732 01:13:55,530 --> 01:13:59,537 - Can I please speak with my friend Mr. Fucks here? 1733 01:13:59,537 --> 01:14:00,720 - Get out of here, stranger! 1734 01:14:00,720 --> 01:14:02,974 - I'm getting back on the train to the balls. 1735 01:14:02,974 --> 01:14:06,040 (players laughing) 1736 01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:07,259 - What a weirdo. ♪ He's leaving ♪ 1737 01:14:07,259 --> 01:14:09,212 ♪ He's leaving ♪ (To the tune of Midnight Train to Georgia) 1738 01:14:09,212 --> 01:14:10,936 ♪ Midnight train to the balls ♪ 1739 01:14:10,936 --> 01:14:13,140 ♪ Getting on the midnight train ♪ 1740 01:14:13,140 --> 01:14:15,300 - [Brennan] Incredible, so Wilton leaves, 1741 01:14:15,300 --> 01:14:16,898 and you two are left alone. 1742 01:14:16,898 --> 01:14:18,610 - What do you have to say to me? 1743 01:14:18,610 --> 01:14:21,930 - Dan, this is possibly worse than we feared. 1744 01:14:21,930 --> 01:14:23,880 It sounds as though, according- 1745 01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:26,790 I went into the train. Huge mess. 1746 01:14:26,790 --> 01:14:29,340 Blood over blood over blood. I wish I had my camera. 1747 01:14:29,340 --> 01:14:31,440 - [Freddie] Good lord! - No, I don't. Blood's bad. 1748 01:14:31,440 --> 01:14:33,960 There was blood everywhere. - What's happened? 1749 01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:37,620 - It appears to be that all of the shock troopers 1750 01:14:37,620 --> 01:14:40,740 took over a train that was coming from the scalp 1751 01:14:40,740 --> 01:14:42,764 that was all pain receptors. 1752 01:14:42,764 --> 01:14:44,190 - What are you saying? 1753 01:14:44,190 --> 01:14:46,110 - I'm saying that we are in great pain. 1754 01:14:46,110 --> 01:14:46,943 - From what? 1755 01:14:46,943 --> 01:14:49,680 - It sounds like blunt force trauma to the head. 1756 01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:51,744 - The head? Wilton, get back here! 1757 01:14:51,744 --> 01:14:52,640 - What's that? 1758 01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:54,030 - There's been some sort of injury down there! 1759 01:14:54,030 --> 01:14:56,070 You need to get back down to the balls as fast as you can! 1760 01:14:56,070 --> 01:14:58,020 - Wait, someone's hurting the balls? 1761 01:14:58,020 --> 01:14:59,137 - No, the head! 1762 01:14:59,137 --> 01:15:00,350 - Oh! 1763 01:15:00,350 --> 01:15:03,660 Wilton, never mind, get out of here. - Do you mean the head of the pehnis? 1764 01:15:03,660 --> 01:15:05,223 - I rarely do. 1765 01:15:06,150 --> 01:15:07,660 - Wilton, I believe I'm mistaken. 1766 01:15:07,660 --> 01:15:09,203 - Oh, all right. 1767 01:15:09,203 --> 01:15:10,770 - I apologize for getting your hopes up. 1768 01:15:10,770 --> 01:15:14,310 - If it's not about cock and balls, I don't want to know. 1769 01:15:14,310 --> 01:15:16,230 (Freddie hums a jaunty tune) 1770 01:15:16,230 --> 01:15:17,820 Wilton heads off. 1771 01:15:17,820 --> 01:15:20,350 - Sorry, I misinterpreted what you said. 1772 01:15:20,350 --> 01:15:23,657 - It appears that we are suffering through 1773 01:15:23,657 --> 01:15:25,380 blunt force trauma, which is why there have been 1774 01:15:25,380 --> 01:15:28,560 so many glitches, so many highways, all of the collapses. 1775 01:15:28,560 --> 01:15:30,330 I spoke with one of the pain receptors, 1776 01:15:30,330 --> 01:15:35,330 and they gave me information to give to the newspaper. 1777 01:15:35,670 --> 01:15:37,830 Now, here's what we have to figure out, 1778 01:15:37,830 --> 01:15:39,736 is how much time we have- - Yes, 1779 01:15:39,736 --> 01:15:42,900 are we still conscious? - Before everything begins shutting down. 1780 01:15:42,900 --> 01:15:45,420 We don't know what the extent of this is. 1781 01:15:45,420 --> 01:15:48,000 It could be fine, it could be bad. 1782 01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:49,380 I have a question for you. 1783 01:15:49,380 --> 01:15:50,213 - Yes. 1784 01:15:50,213 --> 01:15:53,947 - With your ability to be able to 1785 01:15:53,947 --> 01:15:55,828 take in the gratification of others 1786 01:15:56,682 --> 01:15:58,800 and use things that people might like. 1787 01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:00,057 - Yes. 1788 01:16:00,057 --> 01:16:02,310 - I don't have as much of a direct line 1789 01:16:02,310 --> 01:16:04,980 into the pain centers to be able to tell 1790 01:16:04,980 --> 01:16:08,160 exactly how bad this is and what might be happening. 1791 01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:10,710 Aren't there some people who enjoy pain? 1792 01:16:10,710 --> 01:16:13,920 Wouldn't you maybe be able to talk to one of them, 1793 01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:16,200 who might be able to give us some more information 1794 01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:18,491 about what is happening in the head? 1795 01:16:18,491 --> 01:16:20,755 - What kind of person are we talking about here? 1796 01:16:20,755 --> 01:16:23,275 - Hey, you're all Elias, you know? 1797 01:16:23,275 --> 01:16:25,294 (players laughing) 1798 01:16:25,294 --> 01:16:27,452 Up to you. I think actually, though, yo- 1799 01:16:27,452 --> 01:16:29,492 pain and pleasure, 1800 01:16:29,492 --> 01:16:31,649 there's a lot of correlation there. 1801 01:16:31,649 --> 01:16:35,490 - You're asking me to speak to my long-lost sister? 1802 01:16:35,490 --> 01:16:36,931 (Brennan laughing) 1803 01:16:36,931 --> 01:16:39,522 - Yes, now that I know that there is a Ms. Fucks, 1804 01:16:39,522 --> 01:16:42,210 I would like to speak with her. 1805 01:16:42,210 --> 01:16:45,015 - I think we can do this. I think we can do this, yes. 1806 01:16:45,015 --> 01:16:47,701 - She's Fucks, expletive. 1807 01:16:47,701 --> 01:16:50,244 It's the fuck you say when you stub your toe. 1808 01:16:50,244 --> 01:16:51,510 (players laughing) 1809 01:16:51,510 --> 01:16:53,060 - [Freddie] Exactly, exactly, that's what it is. 1810 01:16:53,060 --> 01:16:55,110 - Fuck! - The versatility of the word. 1811 01:16:55,110 --> 01:16:56,008 - [Brennan] Incredible. 1812 01:16:56,008 --> 01:16:59,370 - I will note, though, Wilton gave me a little tip. 1813 01:16:59,370 --> 01:17:01,230 Sounds strange, doesn't it? 1814 01:17:01,230 --> 01:17:02,400 - Absolutely not, nope. 1815 01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:03,350 (players laughing) 1816 01:17:03,350 --> 01:17:06,180 - There was something going on downstairs, as well. 1817 01:17:06,180 --> 01:17:08,220 In addition to blunt force trauma to the head, 1818 01:17:08,220 --> 01:17:10,290 there may be all kinds of other stuff going on. 1819 01:17:10,290 --> 01:17:13,740 We may be suffering bodily in numerous different places. 1820 01:17:13,740 --> 01:17:16,170 We should take a survey of our entire extremities and see 1821 01:17:16,170 --> 01:17:18,319 to what extent we are in pain. 1822 01:17:18,319 --> 01:17:19,740 - Absolutely. - [Freddie] Or pleasure, as the case may be. 1823 01:17:19,740 --> 01:17:21,000 - As the case may be. 1824 01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:22,320 And that is something that we will 1825 01:17:22,320 --> 01:17:25,488 hopefully be able to discuss with your sister. 1826 01:17:25,488 --> 01:17:27,060 When it comes to the head and when it comes 1827 01:17:27,060 --> 01:17:30,271 to the other head, you can discuss that with her alone. 1828 01:17:31,470 --> 01:17:33,720 - Are you off, then? 1829 01:17:33,720 --> 01:17:35,482 - No, no, I just don't want- 1830 01:17:35,482 --> 01:17:38,229 - Where are you in this equation? I'm confused. 1831 01:17:39,480 --> 01:17:40,803 - I will be with you. 1832 01:17:42,330 --> 01:17:43,590 I like to pay attention, 1833 01:17:43,590 --> 01:17:46,260 but I tend to leave that area of the body alone. 1834 01:17:46,260 --> 01:17:47,700 There's not enough going on there 1835 01:17:47,700 --> 01:17:48,666 for me to really be concerned about it. 1836 01:17:48,666 --> 01:17:50,213 - How dare you? 1837 01:17:50,213 --> 01:17:51,871 (players laughing) 1838 01:17:51,871 --> 01:17:55,080 - This is literally every complaint you have with the city. 1839 01:17:55,080 --> 01:17:57,030 Yeah, if we paid more attention 1840 01:17:57,030 --> 01:17:58,827 to what's going on down there! 1841 01:17:58,827 --> 01:18:01,410 - Just got back in touch! 1842 01:18:01,410 --> 01:18:04,080 - Okay, so you have that information. 1843 01:18:04,080 --> 01:18:06,834 So your sister, Donna Fucks, 1844 01:18:06,834 --> 01:18:09,734 (players laughing) 1845 01:18:09,734 --> 01:18:13,620 she kind of honestly works a little bit more than you, 1846 01:18:13,620 --> 01:18:16,590 but she's also similarly around the corner from you 1847 01:18:16,590 --> 01:18:18,150 on the other side of the Hippo Campus. 1848 01:18:18,150 --> 01:18:19,800 - It's just literally if you just walked 1849 01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:22,728 around the building- - It's the other side. 1850 01:18:22,728 --> 01:18:23,853 - Yeah yeah yeah. 1851 01:18:23,853 --> 01:18:25,229 - You could go talk to her if you wanted to. 1852 01:18:25,229 --> 01:18:26,650 She would maybe be able to decipher this, 1853 01:18:26,650 --> 01:18:28,541 - Club Spice. - A little bit more. 1854 01:18:28,541 --> 01:18:31,410 But you also do have your plan 1855 01:18:31,410 --> 01:18:32,730 to meet up with the rest of the gang. 1856 01:18:32,730 --> 01:18:33,563 - [Freddie] That's right. - [Danielle] Yes. 1857 01:18:33,563 --> 01:18:35,010 - So what would you guys like to do? 1858 01:18:35,010 --> 01:18:36,477 - I think we should go back to the others 1859 01:18:36,477 --> 01:18:38,460 with this information, see what they have discovered. 1860 01:18:38,460 --> 01:18:40,260 - Yes, and then we can bring your sister in. 1861 01:18:40,260 --> 01:18:42,510 - Yes. - Cool, you two head off. 1862 01:18:42,510 --> 01:18:45,885 We are going to go ahead and join our friends Fix and Conrad 1863 01:18:45,885 --> 01:18:48,902 We are going to go ahead and join our friends Fix and Conrad 1864 01:18:48,902 --> 01:18:51,569 as you head off through the rainy streets of Mentopolis. 1865 01:18:51,569 --> 01:18:54,688 as you head off through the rainy streets of Mentopolis. 1866 01:18:54,688 --> 01:18:56,370 As the two of you round the corner, 1867 01:18:56,370 --> 01:18:59,620 you arrive at a brick wall with a sort of cave-in 1868 01:18:59,620 --> 01:19:01,986 you arrive at a brick wall with a sort of cave-in 1869 01:19:01,986 --> 01:19:04,710 in the side, loose rubble opening up 1870 01:19:04,710 --> 01:19:08,983 into a drafty, industrial space, 1871 01:19:08,983 --> 01:19:11,400 exposed I-beams and sort of a nest of rubble. 1872 01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:15,033 exposed I-beams and sort of a nest of rubble. 1873 01:19:15,033 --> 01:19:18,000 Justin sort of paws along at your side. 1874 01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:19,230 Conrad, go ahead and tell us, 1875 01:19:19,230 --> 01:19:21,370 what does your sort of dwelling place look like 1876 01:19:21,370 --> 01:19:24,150 inside of this abandoned brick building? 1877 01:19:24,150 --> 01:19:26,970 - Yeah, so it's this big, cavernous room, 1878 01:19:26,970 --> 01:19:30,028 but I've filled it with just newspaper clippings everywhere, 1879 01:19:30,028 --> 01:19:32,795 but I've filled it with just newspaper clippings everywhere, 1880 01:19:32,795 --> 01:19:36,180 little trinkets, and it's all kind of haphazardly stored 1881 01:19:36,180 --> 01:19:40,410 in makeshift filing systems made out of cardboard boxes 1882 01:19:40,410 --> 01:19:43,134 or big planks of wood that I've found. 1883 01:19:43,134 --> 01:19:45,075 (slow, sad music) 1884 01:19:45,075 --> 01:19:46,659 - You enter into this place. 1885 01:19:46,659 --> 01:19:51,035 Fix, go ahead and give me, we'll call it a difficulty... 1886 01:19:51,035 --> 01:19:54,420 seven savvy check here as you start looking around 1887 01:19:54,420 --> 01:19:56,640 at all of the papers that have been filed. 1888 01:19:56,640 --> 01:19:59,509 - I'll take a seven. 1889 01:19:59,509 --> 01:20:03,043 - (gasps) Hell yeah, just halve it and take it. 1890 01:20:03,043 --> 01:20:06,600 You begin to look around at all of the things 1891 01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:09,720 that Conrad has gathered here, 1892 01:20:09,720 --> 01:20:13,865 and they are all united 1893 01:20:13,865 --> 01:20:16,598 in how small and imperceptible 1894 01:20:16,598 --> 01:20:20,070 in how small and imperceptible 1895 01:20:20,070 --> 01:20:23,935 each bit of information in the saved articles is. 1896 01:20:23,935 --> 01:20:26,210 The first impulse that crosses you as you start 1897 01:20:26,210 --> 01:20:28,920 to look at them is probably, in all honesty, a negative one, 1898 01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:32,190 because as you start to look at them, they are distractions. 1899 01:20:32,190 --> 01:20:34,170 They are fundamentally distractions. 1900 01:20:34,170 --> 01:20:36,498 An overheard conversation 1901 01:20:36,498 --> 01:20:40,440 of some coworkers at Gobstopper Industries, 1902 01:20:40,440 --> 01:20:45,420 a request to redesign a schematic 1903 01:20:45,420 --> 01:20:48,180 on something that was being worked on by Elias 1904 01:20:48,180 --> 01:20:52,830 for a purpose that Elias couldn't figure out the meaning of, 1905 01:20:52,830 --> 01:20:54,527 and you look at "couldn't figure out the meaning of," 1906 01:20:54,527 --> 01:20:59,527 and you remember that you went and killed a distraction 1907 01:20:59,527 --> 01:21:02,580 on the day that article was published. 1908 01:21:02,580 --> 01:21:05,340 Who's to say what could have been figured out 1909 01:21:05,340 --> 01:21:08,370 if that distraction had maybe been heeded? 1910 01:21:08,370 --> 01:21:11,710 As you look at all of this, I think there's a way 1911 01:21:11,710 --> 01:21:13,650 in which all of this is very distracting, 1912 01:21:13,650 --> 01:21:18,650 and like a lot of material associated with conscience, 1913 01:21:18,803 --> 01:21:21,552 it doesn't make you feel good. 1914 01:21:21,552 --> 01:21:23,700 The things that crop up that alert you 1915 01:21:23,700 --> 01:21:26,430 that maybe something wrong is happening 1916 01:21:26,430 --> 01:21:29,790 are, by their very definition, challenging. 1917 01:21:29,790 --> 01:21:31,788 They are challenging you, 1918 01:21:31,788 --> 01:21:34,013 and there's a negativity that comes with that. 1919 01:21:34,013 --> 01:21:35,460 But I think on the other hand, though, 1920 01:21:35,460 --> 01:21:38,070 you look at all of this very careful work, 1921 01:21:38,070 --> 01:21:41,370 and it's sort of not unlike a hyperfixation. 1922 01:21:41,370 --> 01:21:42,353 There's this part of the brain 1923 01:21:42,353 --> 01:21:45,810 that's been working very hard to save a group of things. 1924 01:21:45,810 --> 01:21:48,233 What's going through The Fix's mind? 1925 01:21:49,110 --> 01:21:51,943 - I think that The Fix doesn't 1926 01:21:51,943 --> 01:21:56,943 think that the job of the mind is to control itself. 1927 01:21:57,245 --> 01:21:59,163 (Brennan sighing and making an explosion sound) 1928 01:21:59,163 --> 01:22:01,497 (players laughing) 1929 01:22:01,497 --> 01:22:03,270 (Brennan makes that "hlblbblblhblhb" sound) 1930 01:22:03,270 --> 01:22:04,980 - This season's good for me in a lot of ways. 1931 01:22:04,980 --> 01:22:05,813 You know what I'm saying? 1932 01:22:05,813 --> 01:22:07,375 This is actually, I'm realizing now- 1933 01:22:07,375 --> 01:22:09,672 - Some deep knowledge here that's being imparted. 1934 01:22:09,672 --> 01:22:10,989 (Brennan laughing) 1935 01:22:10,989 --> 01:22:13,283 - He's never thought of it like that. 1936 01:22:14,520 --> 01:22:17,400 You know, and maybe just doesn't even believe 1937 01:22:17,400 --> 01:22:20,498 that it's possible, that ultimately, 1938 01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:26,522 he's maybe more aware of the lack of free will 1939 01:22:28,260 --> 01:22:31,840 than most people are, than most people in the brain are, 1940 01:22:31,840 --> 01:22:33,962 and so he's looking at this and thinking, 1941 01:22:33,962 --> 01:22:38,070 why are you trying to change the way that the mind operates? 1942 01:22:38,070 --> 01:22:43,020 That's not our job. Our job is to do what our job is. 1943 01:22:43,020 --> 01:22:44,640 I think that he's very uncomfortable, 1944 01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:48,030 and I think that he, even this act, 1945 01:22:48,030 --> 01:22:51,000 which was sort of his idea, he feels very weird about. 1946 01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:54,365 - Yeah, it's a deviation from someone 1947 01:22:54,365 --> 01:22:56,790 who prizes persistence and reliability, 1948 01:22:56,790 --> 01:22:59,677 and I think that fear, 1949 01:22:59,677 --> 01:23:02,730 as you come into this place and look around. 1950 01:23:02,730 --> 01:23:06,518 You look, and Conrad, Justin sort of wanders over 1951 01:23:06,518 --> 01:23:10,057 to the little doggie bed of newspaper, where he lies down, 1952 01:23:10,057 --> 01:23:13,065 and you see a pair of ice skates there. (serious piano music) 1953 01:23:13,065 --> 01:23:14,502 Like a lot of treasures in this room, 1954 01:23:14,502 --> 01:23:15,480 you suddenly sort of realize 1955 01:23:15,480 --> 01:23:19,170 these treasures here are very significant. 1956 01:23:19,170 --> 01:23:23,465 All of these are memories, and the pair of ice skates, 1957 01:23:23,465 --> 01:23:26,240 very old, deep brown leather with rough leather cords, 1958 01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:30,049 very old, deep brown leather with rough leather cords, 1959 01:23:30,049 --> 01:23:34,488 these sort of scuffed up metal blades on the bottom 1960 01:23:34,488 --> 01:23:38,035 that look a little uncomfortable, but they're tied up, 1961 01:23:38,035 --> 01:23:40,140 and you can see that they're kids' ice skates. 1962 01:23:40,140 --> 01:23:44,504 I think you sense that... 1963 01:23:44,504 --> 01:23:47,738 the things that Conrad has here, 1964 01:23:47,738 --> 01:23:50,438 by virtue of being not at, for example, the Hippo Campus, 1965 01:23:50,438 --> 01:23:53,271 by virtue of being not at, for example, the Hippo Campus, 1966 01:23:53,271 --> 01:23:54,653 are not elsewhere stored away 1967 01:23:54,653 --> 01:23:57,639 in the memory bank or wherever, 1968 01:23:57,639 --> 01:24:00,930 that these are repressed, deep down. 1969 01:24:00,930 --> 01:24:02,142 There's something about these memories 1970 01:24:02,142 --> 01:24:05,173 that's like, they can't just be obliterated, 1971 01:24:05,173 --> 01:24:06,780 but that Conrad's been holding onto them. 1972 01:24:06,780 --> 01:24:10,637 - So The Fix goes up to those ice skates, 1973 01:24:10,637 --> 01:24:13,680 and he sort of runs his thumb across the leather, 1974 01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:15,930 and he says quietly, maybe not loud enough 1975 01:24:15,930 --> 01:24:19,482 and he says quietly, maybe not loud enough 1976 01:24:19,482 --> 01:24:22,925 for Conrad to hear, he says, Ichabod. 1977 01:24:24,720 --> 01:24:27,990 He's thinking about a little kid in the Hall of Interests 1978 01:24:27,990 --> 01:24:31,230 who... isn't there anymore. 1979 01:24:31,230 --> 01:24:33,180 - Conrad has entered a kind of zen mode, 1980 01:24:33,180 --> 01:24:36,060 and was just making small talk. 1981 01:24:36,060 --> 01:24:37,505 So, how long you been fixing? 1982 01:24:37,505 --> 01:24:41,196 (raucous group laughter) 1983 01:24:41,196 --> 01:24:45,338 (raucous group laughter) 1984 01:24:45,338 --> 01:24:48,033 - Justin goes, I think The Fix is really 1985 01:24:48,033 --> 01:24:50,280 deep in something right now, really. 1986 01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:54,013 - I'm not great at reading a situation. 1987 01:24:54,013 --> 01:24:55,488 (players laughing) 1988 01:24:55,488 --> 01:24:57,835 But I'd watch your fingers, also, if I were you. 1989 01:24:57,835 --> 01:24:59,160 (Hank laughing) 1990 01:24:59,160 --> 01:25:02,262 - Good call. What have you been doing here? 1991 01:25:02,262 --> 01:25:04,585 This is, this is a lot of stuff. 1992 01:25:05,610 --> 01:25:07,582 It doesn't feel like you've just been collecting, 1993 01:25:07,582 --> 01:25:12,300 it feels like you've been trying to find something out here. 1994 01:25:12,300 --> 01:25:17,052 - Well, I just make sure that the stuff doesn't disappear 1995 01:25:17,052 --> 01:25:19,620 'cause, you know, we might need 1996 01:25:19,620 --> 01:25:23,990 to feel guilty or shame about it later, 1997 01:25:23,990 --> 01:25:26,550 so I just want to make sure it's here. 1998 01:25:26,550 --> 01:25:28,890 You'll see this clipping says, 1999 01:25:28,890 --> 01:25:32,760 didn't hold a door for an old lady. 2000 01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:36,033 This one says, cheated on a test in 8th grade. 2001 01:25:37,290 --> 01:25:40,595 Yeah, just all kinds of stuff that, 2002 01:25:40,595 --> 01:25:41,788 big guy doesn't think about, 2003 01:25:41,788 --> 01:25:43,495 but I think about all the time. 2004 01:25:43,495 --> 01:25:48,495 (players laughing) 2005 01:25:48,495 --> 01:25:53,373 - Justin looks up and says, someone's gotta. 2006 01:25:53,373 --> 01:25:54,960 - Someone's gotta. 2007 01:25:54,960 --> 01:25:56,985 But yeah, so how long you been fixing for? 2008 01:25:56,985 --> 01:25:58,910 (players laughing) 2009 01:25:58,910 --> 01:26:00,077 - I guess the whole time. 2010 01:26:00,077 --> 01:26:01,390 (players laughing) 2011 01:26:01,390 --> 01:26:02,513 - Yeah, nice. 2012 01:26:02,513 --> 01:26:04,238 (players laughing) 2013 01:26:04,238 --> 01:26:07,530 - So let me pitch you this idea. 2014 01:26:07,530 --> 01:26:10,251 If I needed to kill you, 2015 01:26:10,251 --> 01:26:11,084 - (resigned) Okay. 2016 01:26:11,084 --> 01:26:13,906 (players laughing) 2017 01:26:13,906 --> 01:26:15,090 - Now that we're alone. 2018 01:26:15,090 --> 01:26:18,070 - Just try to sandpaper the edge off, you know? 2019 01:26:18,070 --> 01:26:21,926 Just a little bit of, just something that eases in. 2020 01:26:21,926 --> 01:26:26,220 - All right, all right. So, eyes can't be itchy. 2021 01:26:26,220 --> 01:26:28,410 The membranes around the eyes 2022 01:26:28,410 --> 01:26:31,680 are innervated with itch receptors and pain neurons, 2023 01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:32,940 whereas the eyes themselves 2024 01:26:32,940 --> 01:26:35,175 only have pain neurons because, of course, 2025 01:26:35,175 --> 01:26:39,177 evolution is strongly incentivized to prevent you 2026 01:26:39,177 --> 01:26:41,512 from scratching your cornea with your fingernail. 2027 01:26:41,512 --> 01:26:43,230 So your eyes are never actually itchy. 2028 01:26:43,230 --> 01:26:45,480 People say, my eyes are itchy! But they're not. 2029 01:26:45,480 --> 01:26:47,023 - Huh. - They're not actually itchy. 2030 01:26:47,023 --> 01:26:49,410 It's just the membranes around your eyes. 2031 01:26:49,410 --> 01:26:51,574 Did that make you feel better? 2032 01:26:52,740 --> 01:26:54,933 - Y- Yeah! - That's really all I know how to do. 2033 01:26:54,933 --> 01:26:56,444 That, and punching. 2034 01:26:56,444 --> 01:26:58,252 (players laughing) 2035 01:26:58,252 --> 01:27:01,920 - It's kind of like, you know, when you feel upset, 2036 01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:05,187 and they tell you to look at what's around you 2037 01:27:05,187 --> 01:27:06,742 or drink a glass of water, 2038 01:27:06,742 --> 01:27:10,250 and you focus on something else for a second. 2039 01:27:10,250 --> 01:27:12,270 - 'Cause I can do that all day. 2040 01:27:12,270 --> 01:27:13,195 - Okay! 2041 01:27:14,436 --> 01:27:16,140 - Here's what I'm thinking. - Uh-huh. 2042 01:27:16,140 --> 01:27:18,943 - So, sometimes when I kill people, they're 2043 01:27:18,943 --> 01:27:21,750 still- Sorry. - Yeah. 2044 01:27:21,750 --> 01:27:24,480 They're still there, and there's something I can show, 2045 01:27:24,480 --> 01:27:26,070 and sometimes they just disappear. 2046 01:27:26,070 --> 01:27:27,630 I don't know why. 2047 01:27:27,630 --> 01:27:30,450 Different people, different folks, different strokes. 2048 01:27:30,450 --> 01:27:32,002 Some people disappear when they die, 2049 01:27:32,002 --> 01:27:35,220 and some people, I get a little something I can show. 2050 01:27:35,220 --> 01:27:37,290 So in those those situations, 2051 01:27:37,290 --> 01:27:40,028 when they're just not there anymore, 2052 01:27:40,028 --> 01:27:42,841 I gotta prove that I did my work. 2053 01:27:44,038 --> 01:27:46,706 I like to do my best. 2054 01:27:47,728 --> 01:27:49,982 Now, this would be a good thing to show 2055 01:27:49,982 --> 01:27:51,765 to say I did my work. 2056 01:27:51,765 --> 01:27:55,890 I found you, I found where you lived, and you were gone. 2057 01:27:55,890 --> 01:27:57,498 You're not here anymore. 2058 01:27:58,547 --> 01:28:00,660 Would it be okay for me to bring the DA by here? 2059 01:28:00,660 --> 01:28:03,840 Anything you want to take out of here for him not to see? 2060 01:28:03,840 --> 01:28:06,265 - Well, I guess kind of everything, but- 2061 01:28:06,265 --> 01:28:08,864 (players laughing) 2062 01:28:11,173 --> 01:28:13,228 So- So you'd rather he come here 2063 01:28:13,228 --> 01:28:16,740 than, like, you just take those skates or something? 2064 01:28:16,740 --> 01:28:19,098 - You know, I could do that. 2065 01:28:19,098 --> 01:28:21,293 I want to see what he thinks of this. 2066 01:28:21,293 --> 01:28:26,293 I want to see how scared he is of what you have built here. 2067 01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:28,770 - Okay, and there's no chance that he'll go, 2068 01:28:28,770 --> 01:28:31,215 well, surely Conrad's still alive, 2069 01:28:31,215 --> 01:28:33,822 and now that I've seen this, I gotta kill him. 2070 01:28:33,822 --> 01:28:35,904 (players laughing) 2071 01:28:35,904 --> 01:28:38,578 - I think that if there was an amount of dead 2072 01:28:38,578 --> 01:28:41,160 he didn't want you, he wouldn't have called me. 2073 01:28:41,160 --> 01:28:43,500 - Whoa, you're good at your job, huh? 2074 01:28:43,500 --> 01:28:46,104 - (quietly) I like to think so. - [Brennan] Congratulations. 2075 01:28:46,104 --> 01:28:48,600 - Hey, you know, that feels nice. 2076 01:28:48,600 --> 01:28:49,800 - Oh, good. 2077 01:28:49,800 --> 01:28:52,842 Yeah, you know, it's not all sad and dreary down here. 2078 01:28:52,842 --> 01:28:55,317 Yeah, you know, it's not all sad and dreary down here. 2079 01:28:55,317 --> 01:28:59,220 There's a theoretical world where we could make someone 2080 01:28:59,220 --> 01:29:01,999 theoretically feel good about themselves. 2081 01:29:01,999 --> 01:29:02,832 - Yeah. 2082 01:29:02,832 --> 01:29:04,966 - Like, what would we do to make someone, 2083 01:29:04,966 --> 01:29:07,875 like, if that lady, he had held the door open for her, then, 2084 01:29:07,875 --> 01:29:11,749 like, if that lady, he had held the door open for her, then, 2085 01:29:11,749 --> 01:29:14,162 - We'd keep that clipping, too! 2086 01:29:14,162 --> 01:29:16,620 - Then we'd keep that clipping, too. 2087 01:29:16,620 --> 01:29:17,820 - Would you? 2088 01:29:17,820 --> 01:29:20,488 Because sometimes I feel like that's not how it works. 2089 01:29:20,488 --> 01:29:22,503 That's just me talking. - I don't know. 2090 01:29:22,503 --> 01:29:26,070 It's been a while since we've had something like that. 2091 01:29:26,070 --> 01:29:28,434 - Yeah, imagine a W that big. 2092 01:29:28,434 --> 01:29:30,991 (players laughing) 2093 01:29:30,991 --> 01:29:32,820 Holding the door open for somebody. 2094 01:29:32,820 --> 01:29:36,720 Golly, that'd be a banner day! (barks) 2095 01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:38,020 - Woof is right. 2096 01:29:38,020 --> 01:29:39,737 (players laughing) 2097 01:29:39,737 --> 01:29:41,430 - You two are best friends. 2098 01:29:41,430 --> 01:29:44,130 - I like that you talk to Justin, too. 2099 01:29:44,130 --> 01:29:45,770 - Yeah, you're a good dog. 2100 01:29:46,719 --> 01:29:49,386 (Brennan howls) (players aww) 2101 01:29:50,820 --> 01:29:53,803 - The plan to bring the DA down here, I mean, 2102 01:29:53,803 --> 01:29:56,370 there is a lot of stuff down here that, like you're saying, 2103 01:29:56,370 --> 01:30:00,217 that's a very polished guy, and the idea of bringing him 2104 01:30:00,217 --> 01:30:02,398 down to a place this intense, you haven't really 2105 01:30:02,398 --> 01:30:05,370 found a spot in Mentopolis like this before. 2106 01:30:05,370 --> 01:30:08,915 I think that strikes you as a very worthwhile, 2107 01:30:08,915 --> 01:30:11,070 for lack of a better word, ambition. 2108 01:30:11,070 --> 01:30:14,130 Justin looks over at you and says, well, Conrad, 2109 01:30:14,130 --> 01:30:16,950 we can get one of the blankets and tie it around me 2110 01:30:16,950 --> 01:30:19,770 like a little sled and fill it up with all of our stuff 2111 01:30:19,770 --> 01:30:21,270 if we want to try to find another spot. 2112 01:30:21,270 --> 01:30:23,534 I don't know where we'd go. 2113 01:30:23,534 --> 01:30:26,310 - Sure, but we've had that feeling before, 2114 01:30:26,310 --> 01:30:29,978 and we found somewhere to go, so we'll find somewhere else. 2115 01:30:29,978 --> 01:30:31,920 - Yeah, we'll find somewhere else. 2116 01:30:31,920 --> 01:30:34,320 - I probably know of a couple of spots. 2117 01:30:34,320 --> 01:30:37,638 - Yeah, go ahead, let's call it a DC four savvy. 2118 01:30:37,638 --> 01:30:40,046 - Yeah, go ahead, let's call it a DC four savvy. 2119 01:30:41,760 --> 01:30:43,590 - Four. Five. 2120 01:30:43,590 --> 01:30:48,270 - There are some, you know, motels, flophouses, 2121 01:30:48,270 --> 01:30:50,640 places for people that are just coming into the mind 2122 01:30:50,640 --> 01:30:53,877 for a very short period of time, and then there's your... 2123 01:30:53,877 --> 01:30:56,975 I'm trying to think of where The Fix actually lives. 2124 01:30:56,975 --> 01:30:59,903 - (laughing) I hadn't thought about it. 2125 01:30:59,903 --> 01:31:01,570 - I'm trying to think of The Fix's apartment. 2126 01:31:01,570 --> 01:31:02,820 - I don't know that I sleep. 2127 01:31:02,820 --> 01:31:05,988 - He just wanders the streets. 2128 01:31:05,988 --> 01:31:08,114 - Muttering to himself about animal facts. 2129 01:31:08,114 --> 01:31:12,090 - A completely unadorned single room apartment 2130 01:31:12,090 --> 01:31:15,760 with just a closet that you walk into and stand in the dark. 2131 01:31:15,760 --> 01:31:17,318 (players laughing) 2132 01:31:17,318 --> 01:31:19,350 - It's got a bar, and I just hang off of it. 2133 01:31:19,350 --> 01:31:21,480 - Yeah, just hang off of the bar. 2134 01:31:21,480 --> 01:31:22,890 - White noise coming out of the walls. 2135 01:31:22,890 --> 01:31:24,965 We don't know where it's coming from. 2136 01:31:24,965 --> 01:31:26,973 (players laughing) 2137 01:31:26,973 --> 01:31:29,492 - You walk into a fucking noise canceling headphone. 2138 01:31:29,492 --> 01:31:31,988 (group laughing) 2139 01:31:31,988 --> 01:31:33,403 But yeah, you know a couple places 2140 01:31:33,403 --> 01:31:35,938 that Conrad can stay, for sure. 2141 01:31:35,938 --> 01:31:37,208 What do you think you would do? 2142 01:31:37,208 --> 01:31:39,362 Do you think you would send Conrad 2143 01:31:39,362 --> 01:31:41,280 on his way here and go get the DA right now? 2144 01:31:41,280 --> 01:31:43,500 Or do you think that you would, having come here 2145 01:31:43,500 --> 01:31:46,200 and gotten the skates or seeing it for yourself, 2146 01:31:46,200 --> 01:31:47,640 knowing where it is, do you think you would try 2147 01:31:47,640 --> 01:31:51,275 to both rejoin up with your other allies? 2148 01:31:53,790 --> 01:31:54,623 - I don't... 2149 01:31:55,680 --> 01:31:57,600 - All good, there's no- 2150 01:31:57,600 --> 01:32:02,600 - Conrad's also debating whether or not to tell The Fix 2151 01:32:02,910 --> 01:32:05,430 the story behind the skates. 2152 01:32:05,430 --> 01:32:07,228 - You have the ability 2153 01:32:07,228 --> 01:32:10,745 to turn these memories on, if you want to. 2154 01:32:10,745 --> 01:32:13,573 You can bring them to life, kind of. 2155 01:32:13,573 --> 01:32:15,219 You can share the story of them yourself. 2156 01:32:15,219 --> 01:32:16,052 - Okay. 2157 01:32:16,052 --> 01:32:19,440 - You can turn the memories on, but truly, 2158 01:32:19,440 --> 01:32:21,810 whatever you want to do, whatever you think Conrad would do. 2159 01:32:21,810 --> 01:32:24,205 - Hey, Fix. Sorry, The Fix. (serious music) 2160 01:32:24,205 --> 01:32:25,513 (Freddie and Hank snicker) 2161 01:32:25,513 --> 01:32:27,223 - Either's fine. 2162 01:32:27,223 --> 01:32:29,906 - Really? Or, surely you have a preference. 2163 01:32:29,906 --> 01:32:30,918 - I like The Fix. 2164 01:32:30,918 --> 01:32:33,077 - Okay. The Fix, sorry. 2165 01:32:34,260 --> 01:32:36,798 Do you know why we keep those skates? 2166 01:32:36,798 --> 01:32:39,424 - No. - [Alex] Do you want to know? 2167 01:32:39,424 --> 01:32:40,257 - Yeah. 2168 01:32:41,102 --> 01:32:43,500 - Those are kind of... 2169 01:32:43,500 --> 01:32:44,939 Those skates really hurt the big guy 2170 01:32:44,939 --> 01:32:47,763 the last time he ever listened to me, so. 2171 01:32:49,830 --> 01:32:52,008 I guess that's kind of vague, um... 2172 01:32:52,008 --> 01:32:55,507 (players laughing) 2173 01:32:55,507 --> 01:32:57,363 Just, when the big guy was a kid, 2174 01:32:57,363 --> 01:32:59,310 he stood up for his little sister, 2175 01:32:59,310 --> 01:33:03,450 and then this big bully... cut him up real bad 2176 01:33:03,450 --> 01:33:06,360 with those skates, and that's why they live here with me. 2177 01:33:06,360 --> 01:33:09,300 And he doesn't really remember that, but I do. 2178 01:33:09,300 --> 01:33:13,495 So that's why I don't deserve to be listened to, 2179 01:33:13,495 --> 01:33:17,248 and I just kind of try to make my way in the city. 2180 01:33:20,550 --> 01:33:23,008 - I think it's time to unlearn that lesson. 2181 01:33:24,150 --> 01:33:25,491 - (thoroughly impacted) Okay. 2182 01:33:25,491 --> 01:33:27,666 (players laughing) 2183 01:33:27,666 --> 01:33:29,713 - We've talked about balls so much in this season, 2184 01:33:29,713 --> 01:33:31,530 and I almost... wept. 2185 01:33:31,530 --> 01:33:33,603 I almost just started fully crying (players laughing) 2186 01:33:33,603 --> 01:33:36,300 when you said it's time to unlearn that lesson. 2187 01:33:36,300 --> 01:33:39,129 That's right! Okay, we cut back to Wilton in the balls! 2188 01:33:39,129 --> 01:33:41,503 (group laughing) 2189 01:33:41,503 --> 01:33:43,066 - Keep those coming! 2190 01:33:43,066 --> 01:33:46,949 (group laughing) 2191 01:33:46,949 --> 01:33:49,500 - Incredible. You have these here. 2192 01:33:49,500 --> 01:33:51,133 Conrad has shared that, 2193 01:33:51,133 --> 01:33:53,609 story of the origin of the ice skates. 2194 01:33:53,609 --> 01:33:54,610 They're not doing anything right now. 2195 01:33:54,610 --> 01:33:55,633 They're not glowing, they're not doing anything, 2196 01:33:55,633 --> 01:33:58,590 but you just know that those things are powerful. 2197 01:33:58,590 --> 01:34:00,304 It's a powerful memory hanging 2198 01:34:00,304 --> 01:34:03,250 in this little abandoned place. 2199 01:34:03,250 --> 01:34:06,600 You guys take off and head out of here, 2200 01:34:06,600 --> 01:34:10,708 and even as Conrad shares that memory, 2201 01:34:10,708 --> 01:34:11,832 you know, memories are things 2202 01:34:11,832 --> 01:34:14,730 that sort of belong to the entire city, in a weird way. 2203 01:34:14,730 --> 01:34:18,679 But this is one so deep down that it's like, 2204 01:34:19,647 --> 01:34:20,746 you know, 2205 01:34:20,746 --> 01:34:23,160 how much of the rest of the brain has this been hidden from 2206 01:34:23,160 --> 01:34:26,273 and how much has just Conrad been carrying this? 2207 01:34:27,182 --> 01:34:30,930 And you take off and head towards Occipital Park 2208 01:34:30,930 --> 01:34:32,100 at the back of the brain. 2209 01:34:32,100 --> 01:34:34,570 We cut to the Hippo Campus, (big, upbeat brass horn music) 2210 01:34:34,570 --> 01:34:35,403 right at the edge 2211 01:34:35,403 --> 01:34:38,490 of the red light district, big college town energy. 2212 01:34:38,490 --> 01:34:42,357 You see that a lot of old marquees and flophouses 2213 01:34:42,357 --> 01:34:45,270 and little shops and restaurants and suddenly, boom! 2214 01:34:45,270 --> 01:34:49,740 Big, ivy-covered walls and a bunch of students 2215 01:34:49,740 --> 01:34:52,868 that all have these sort of, again, art deco, varsity, 2216 01:34:52,868 --> 01:34:56,190 their letter jackets and sort of pomaded hair 2217 01:34:56,190 --> 01:34:58,020 and everything like that, are sort of running around. 2218 01:34:58,020 --> 01:35:00,600 Go Hippos! And they start running. 2219 01:35:00,600 --> 01:35:03,105 You see big hippo mascots on a bunch of pennants. 2220 01:35:03,105 --> 01:35:05,430 I'll see you at the big game later, won't I, Tony? 2221 01:35:05,430 --> 01:35:08,608 You sure will! We love the brain! 2222 01:35:08,608 --> 01:35:09,997 They head off. 2223 01:35:09,997 --> 01:35:13,080 As you both enter this area, you do notice 2224 01:35:13,080 --> 01:35:15,210 that there are some students wandering 2225 01:35:15,210 --> 01:35:17,928 up in some of the upper hallways through the windows, 2226 01:35:17,928 --> 01:35:21,690 playing football inside of one of the university hallways, 2227 01:35:21,690 --> 01:35:23,160 and I think as you walk in, you would just notice 2228 01:35:23,160 --> 01:35:25,290 that you don't see any faculty around. 2229 01:35:25,290 --> 01:35:27,418 - Can I see if it looks like anyone's tailing us? 2230 01:35:27,418 --> 01:35:31,500 - Go ahead and give me a snoop check, call that an eight. 2231 01:35:31,500 --> 01:35:32,898 - Eight, okay. 2232 01:35:37,860 --> 01:35:40,766 No, I don't do it. That is a five. 2233 01:35:42,015 --> 01:35:43,090 (ball sliding on a track x2) 2234 01:35:43,090 --> 01:35:44,592 But I'll take that Moxie! 2235 01:35:44,592 --> 01:35:45,900 (ball clanking x2) 2236 01:35:45,900 --> 01:35:46,770 - You look around. 2237 01:35:46,770 --> 01:35:48,918 You don't observe anyone tailing you. 2238 01:35:50,020 --> 01:35:51,480 - Who knows if I saw them? 2239 01:35:51,480 --> 01:35:52,470 - Who knows if you saw them or not? 2240 01:35:52,470 --> 01:35:54,330 But you walk into the campus. 2241 01:35:54,330 --> 01:35:56,100 You see that a couple students run around. 2242 01:35:56,100 --> 01:35:58,020 There's some heading to the big game. 2243 01:35:58,020 --> 01:35:59,850 You see a few cheerleaders run by, 2244 01:35:59,850 --> 01:36:03,270 and one of them turns around, and you see that she says, 2245 01:36:03,270 --> 01:36:06,600 (gasps) oh my goodness, are you Imelda Pulse? 2246 01:36:06,600 --> 01:36:09,214 - No. - Oh, wrong. Okay. 2247 01:36:09,214 --> 01:36:13,158 She runs off. Heads off. (players laughing) 2248 01:36:13,158 --> 01:36:14,820 - Nice. 2249 01:36:14,820 --> 01:36:16,920 - You guys head into the Hippo Campus. 2250 01:36:16,920 --> 01:36:18,300 Are you heading to any place in particular? 2251 01:36:18,300 --> 01:36:21,379 You can head straight to the memory bank if you want, 2252 01:36:21,379 --> 01:36:23,322 but it's totally up to you. 2253 01:36:24,240 --> 01:36:26,010 - I feel like I want to know more about... 2254 01:36:26,010 --> 01:36:29,580 - Sure, the memory seems as good as anything to me. 2255 01:36:29,580 --> 01:36:34,387 - Now, this is going to take some pretty slick work, 2256 01:36:34,387 --> 01:36:36,149 so I think I know- - Let me talk. 2257 01:36:36,149 --> 01:36:37,412 - You should be doing 2258 01:36:37,412 --> 01:36:38,743 the talking here. - Yes, I think maybe you 2259 01:36:38,743 --> 01:36:39,956 shouldn't be talking. - I think so. 2260 01:36:39,956 --> 01:36:41,025 And I start striding forward. 2261 01:36:41,025 --> 01:36:43,333 (players laughing) 2262 01:36:43,333 --> 01:36:45,518 - [Brennan] Incredible. - Just blow the doors open. 2263 01:36:45,518 --> 01:36:46,435 (Siobhan laughing) 2264 01:36:46,435 --> 01:36:48,507 - Boom, you walk into the memory bank, (retro-futuristic music) 2265 01:36:48,507 --> 01:36:50,223 this beautiful, decorated, 2266 01:36:50,223 --> 01:36:53,437 there's tall, rolling ladders, huge steps. 2267 01:36:53,437 --> 01:36:55,710 You see all this information everywhere, and you see 2268 01:36:55,710 --> 01:36:58,980 there's only two librarians working in here right now. 2269 01:36:58,980 --> 01:37:02,638 You see there is a very officious and happy, helpful, 2270 01:37:02,638 --> 01:37:05,640 You see there is a very officious and happy, helpful, 2271 01:37:05,640 --> 01:37:09,210 prim woman, pencil skirt, little white collar, 2272 01:37:09,210 --> 01:37:12,217 and this absolutely enormous guy 2273 01:37:12,217 --> 01:37:15,330 who's sort of got a little bit bald and comb-over, 2274 01:37:15,330 --> 01:37:16,770 but just big, musclebound guy 2275 01:37:16,770 --> 01:37:20,100 who's putting big stacks of books up on the shelves. 2276 01:37:20,100 --> 01:37:22,740 The young woman looks at you and says, 2277 01:37:22,740 --> 01:37:26,550 hello and welcome to the Ammon's Horn Memorial Memory Bank. 2278 01:37:26,550 --> 01:37:29,740 I'm so delighted to have you come in. Are you students? 2279 01:37:31,157 --> 01:37:32,238 - (confidently) Yeah. 2280 01:37:32,238 --> 01:37:35,587 (players laughing) - Give me a slick check. 2281 01:37:35,587 --> 01:37:36,940 DC eight. 2282 01:37:36,940 --> 01:37:38,706 (Trapp giggling gleefully to himself) 2283 01:37:38,706 --> 01:37:41,009 - All right! - Got to explode twice. 2284 01:37:41,009 --> 01:37:42,500 (Siobhan laughing) 2285 01:37:43,759 --> 01:37:45,217 (Siobhan laughing even harder) 2286 01:37:45,217 --> 01:37:47,250 What'd you get, Trapp? - That's a one. 2287 01:37:47,250 --> 01:37:48,566 - [Hank] It's going to be hard to get there. 2288 01:37:48,566 --> 01:37:51,473 - You see the big guy turns around and goes, 2289 01:37:53,070 --> 01:37:54,210 what'd you say? 2290 01:37:54,210 --> 01:37:58,857 - I throw my hood back and I say, 2291 01:37:58,857 --> 01:38:00,662 aren't we all students of something? 2292 01:38:00,662 --> 01:38:01,495 - Yeah! 2293 01:38:01,495 --> 01:38:03,630 - You see that Millie goes, huh! 2294 01:38:03,630 --> 01:38:07,776 I guess in an incredibly broad sense, yes! 2295 01:38:07,776 --> 01:38:09,251 (Freddie laughing) 2296 01:38:09,251 --> 01:38:13,294 Ollie, the big guy, Ollie, turns to look at you and goes... 2297 01:38:13,294 --> 01:38:15,060 - Sorry, do I get any Moxie 2298 01:38:15,060 --> 01:38:17,220 for massively failing that roll? 2299 01:38:17,220 --> 01:38:20,130 - Oh, for sure. Thank you for reminding me. 2300 01:38:20,130 --> 01:38:22,590 Let's get the man his Moxie. (ball sliding on a track x2) 2301 01:38:22,590 --> 01:38:25,080 - I gotta succeed later. 2302 01:38:25,080 --> 01:38:27,900 - You see the guy looks at you and says, 2303 01:38:27,900 --> 01:38:29,610 you said you're a student. 2304 01:38:29,610 --> 01:38:31,454 What's your class schedule? 2305 01:38:31,454 --> 01:38:34,012 (curious noir music) 2306 01:38:35,550 --> 01:38:37,321 - My class schedule? 2307 01:38:38,400 --> 01:38:40,710 Well, you know, every morning, 2308 01:38:40,710 --> 01:38:44,610 I attend Basic Neurological Functions, 2309 01:38:44,610 --> 01:38:49,487 and then after that, it's Reflexes 101. 2310 01:38:49,487 --> 01:38:52,525 And then, you know, I'm dabbling in the arts. 2311 01:38:53,820 --> 01:38:56,002 - Go ahead and give me a DC 20 slick check. 2312 01:38:56,002 --> 01:38:57,526 (players laughing) 2313 01:38:57,526 --> 01:38:59,490 You only have to explode five times in a row. 2314 01:38:59,490 --> 01:39:01,255 - Hey, we're going to do it. 2315 01:39:03,622 --> 01:39:06,120 Explode! - [Brennan] Okay, one. Four more to go. 2316 01:39:06,120 --> 01:39:08,095 - Okay, okay! - [Freddie] Come on! 2317 01:39:08,095 --> 01:39:10,297 - [Siobhan] Come on, you can do it. 2318 01:39:12,480 --> 01:39:15,000 - That's a one. So that's five. 2319 01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:17,091 - You only need to spend 15 Moxie. 2320 01:39:17,091 --> 01:39:20,124 (players laughing) 2321 01:39:20,124 --> 01:39:22,283 - [Hank] It's good, though. Just keep lying to people. 2322 01:39:22,283 --> 01:39:23,608 (players laughing) 2323 01:39:23,608 --> 01:39:24,683 - Ollie goes, 2324 01:39:26,183 --> 01:39:28,050 are you out of your mind? 2325 01:39:28,050 --> 01:39:31,156 We defunded the arts years ago! 2326 01:39:31,156 --> 01:39:33,239 (group laughing) 2327 01:39:33,239 --> 01:39:34,344 - This is a science mind. 2328 01:39:34,344 --> 01:39:38,756 - You see Millie says, I am so sorry, sir. We're STEM only. 2329 01:39:38,756 --> 01:39:40,470 And Ollie cocks a fist back 2330 01:39:40,470 --> 01:39:43,256 and is going to attempt to punch you out of the library. 2331 01:39:43,256 --> 01:39:44,339 (players laughing) 2332 01:39:44,339 --> 01:39:46,166 - Okay, everybody calm down. 2333 01:39:46,166 --> 01:39:47,491 (Alex laughing) 2334 01:39:47,491 --> 01:39:51,116 Can I do some kind of slick check to, 2335 01:39:51,116 --> 01:39:53,488 - Give me a slick check. - [Siobhan] Calm everybody the fuck down? 2336 01:39:53,488 --> 01:39:55,546 - It will be a DC 13 slick check. 2337 01:39:55,546 --> 01:39:59,100 - Great, so would you say that under these circumstances, 2338 01:39:59,100 --> 01:40:01,830 that these are either authority figures 2339 01:40:01,830 --> 01:40:04,590 or view me as an authority figure? 2340 01:40:04,590 --> 01:40:06,870 - I will say that under the circumstances, 2341 01:40:06,870 --> 01:40:08,310 you can view these as authority figures, 2342 01:40:08,310 --> 01:40:09,990 but I will say this is a snap decision. 2343 01:40:09,990 --> 01:40:11,850 - Okay. - So you get the plus three, 2344 01:40:11,850 --> 01:40:13,550 but you do have to roll. - Great. 2345 01:40:15,090 --> 01:40:18,210 So that's a 13 plus 5, so it's an 18. 2346 01:40:18,210 --> 01:40:22,048 - You see Ollie, fist goes back and stops and says, 2347 01:40:24,390 --> 01:40:26,973 excuse me, what'd you say your name was? 2348 01:40:28,558 --> 01:40:30,254 - (trembling) Stacy. 2349 01:40:30,254 --> 01:40:32,705 (players laughing) 2350 01:40:32,705 --> 01:40:34,233 Fakename. 2351 01:40:34,233 --> 01:40:36,499 (players laughing) 2352 01:40:36,499 --> 01:40:41,492 - Stacy, how could I forget? Such a beautiful young woman. 2353 01:40:41,492 --> 01:40:45,450 Why don't you come right with me, Ms. Fakename? 2354 01:40:45,450 --> 01:40:47,248 You see that he says, 2355 01:40:47,248 --> 01:40:51,523 we have so many wonderful art books to show you! 2356 01:40:54,246 --> 01:40:55,993 Millie looks and says, all right, Ollie. 2357 01:40:55,993 --> 01:40:58,740 And looks over and says, hello, ma'am. 2358 01:40:58,740 --> 01:41:00,090 How can I help you? 2359 01:41:00,090 --> 01:41:02,730 You're a student here at the Hippo Campus? 2360 01:41:02,730 --> 01:41:07,590 - I'm not a student, but I'm hoping that you can help me. 2361 01:41:07,590 --> 01:41:10,320 I'm just a poor lady in distress. 2362 01:41:10,320 --> 01:41:13,500 I was wondering if you could perhaps point me 2363 01:41:13,500 --> 01:41:15,480 in the way of some information 2364 01:41:15,480 --> 01:41:17,730 that I'm looking for in the memory banks. 2365 01:41:17,730 --> 01:41:19,740 I don't really know how to use them. 2366 01:41:19,740 --> 01:41:21,968 I'm just a silly little girl. 2367 01:41:23,610 --> 01:41:25,920 - That's wildly self-depricating. 2368 01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:29,333 - Oh, well, I mean, I'm a silly little woman. 2369 01:41:29,333 --> 01:41:31,199 (players laughing) 2370 01:41:31,199 --> 01:41:34,493 - A notch up! Okay, yes, of course! 2371 01:41:34,493 --> 01:41:36,810 You see she says, well, I'd be more than happy to help you. 2372 01:41:36,810 --> 01:41:38,040 What sort of memories are you looking for? 2373 01:41:38,040 --> 01:41:39,150 Is there anything that I can try to find? 2374 01:41:39,150 --> 01:41:40,735 - Oh, anything that you have 2375 01:41:40,735 --> 01:41:45,390 on files and what might be inside them. 2376 01:41:45,390 --> 01:41:49,380 - Files and what might be inside them. 2377 01:41:49,380 --> 01:41:51,513 I'll do the very best I can. 2378 01:41:51,513 --> 01:41:54,870 I'll try to find a memory related to files. 2379 01:41:54,870 --> 01:41:56,970 Go ahead, I'm actually going to ask you here 2380 01:41:56,970 --> 01:42:00,270 for a slick check, 2381 01:42:00,270 --> 01:42:04,650 and we'll just say five, 10, 15, 20 2382 01:42:04,650 --> 01:42:06,630 as our ascending order 2383 01:42:06,630 --> 01:42:08,733 of how good the memory is that you find. 2384 01:42:08,733 --> 01:42:09,632 - Okay, great. 2385 01:42:11,910 --> 01:42:13,082 That is a 21. 2386 01:42:13,082 --> 01:42:16,290 - Oh my god. (players ooh) 2387 01:42:16,290 --> 01:42:19,062 You see she goes back, and coming down 2388 01:42:19,062 --> 01:42:21,495 with this enormous tome that you see has an emblem 2389 01:42:21,495 --> 01:42:25,020 with this enormous tome that you see has an emblem 2390 01:42:25,020 --> 01:42:28,920 of the packet itself, and you see the big title 2391 01:42:28,920 --> 01:42:33,720 that says, Gobstopper Psychometer Project. 2392 01:42:33,720 --> 01:42:35,857 And underneath, it says, 2393 01:42:35,857 --> 01:42:39,360 like all the memories in here, by Elias Hodge. 2394 01:42:39,360 --> 01:42:42,540 You see that Millie walks up to you and says, 2395 01:42:42,540 --> 01:42:46,230 now this is one of our most pristine, 2396 01:42:46,230 --> 01:42:49,920 first edition memories, which is so, so exciting. 2397 01:42:49,920 --> 01:42:51,720 It's relatively new. 2398 01:42:51,720 --> 01:42:55,140 Please be extraordinarily careful with it. 2399 01:42:55,140 --> 01:42:58,590 Try to guard it with your life as well as you can. 2400 01:42:58,590 --> 01:43:00,060 We will expect it back by Wednesday, 2401 01:43:00,060 --> 01:43:02,339 and when you return it, add something fun. 2402 01:43:02,339 --> 01:43:06,589 (players laughing) 2403 01:43:06,589 --> 01:43:07,758 - Okay. - That's so good. 2404 01:43:07,758 --> 01:43:09,300 - I love adding fun things. 2405 01:43:09,300 --> 01:43:11,520 - Of course, we demand that every memory that come back 2406 01:43:11,520 --> 01:43:14,186 just have something cute and fun kind of added. 2407 01:43:14,186 --> 01:43:16,333 - Maybe I'll change a couple of colors. How about that? 2408 01:43:16,333 --> 01:43:18,240 - That would be great! - Great! 2409 01:43:18,240 --> 01:43:19,290 - Of course, any colors. 2410 01:43:19,290 --> 01:43:20,550 You know, I think there's something in here 2411 01:43:20,550 --> 01:43:23,490 about the packet being a sort of deeper manila. 2412 01:43:23,490 --> 01:43:25,021 Maybe we sort of go, it was beige! 2413 01:43:25,021 --> 01:43:26,460 - It was beige! - [Brennan] It was a light beige. 2414 01:43:26,460 --> 01:43:28,740 - I absolutely swear to god, it was beige. 2415 01:43:28,740 --> 01:43:30,690 - I swear to god! 2416 01:43:30,690 --> 01:43:32,957 We try to have fun here at the memory bank, we really do. 2417 01:43:32,957 --> 01:43:35,940 (players laughing) 2418 01:43:35,940 --> 01:43:39,090 - So good. Mwah. 2419 01:43:39,090 --> 01:43:42,810 - She hands this enormous, deeply important memory 2420 01:43:42,810 --> 01:43:46,230 over to you, and you see, because it is brand new, 2421 01:43:46,230 --> 01:43:48,270 you look at some of the other older memory books 2422 01:43:48,270 --> 01:43:50,910 and they are dog-eared, bitten to hell, 2423 01:43:50,910 --> 01:43:54,450 tons of drawings and shit in the margins of them. 2424 01:43:54,450 --> 01:43:56,940 So you have this really important memory in front of you. 2425 01:43:56,940 --> 01:44:00,210 Off in the corner, you see as soon as they get around, 2426 01:44:00,210 --> 01:44:04,015 Ollie leans over and goes, look here, Wisenheimer. 2427 01:44:04,015 --> 01:44:07,050 I'm about to butter your necktie unless you start talking. 2428 01:44:07,050 --> 01:44:09,180 Are you a student here or ain'tcha? 2429 01:44:09,180 --> 01:44:12,541 - I. Am. A student! 2430 01:44:12,541 --> 01:44:14,632 (players laughing) 2431 01:44:14,632 --> 01:44:17,700 - Stacy! - [Hank] Just playing for Moxie. 2432 01:44:17,700 --> 01:44:21,420 - He pounds you with a 14 sharp check. 2433 01:44:21,420 --> 01:44:22,560 Go ahead and give me sturdy. 2434 01:44:22,560 --> 01:44:23,393 - Sure. 2435 01:44:23,393 --> 01:44:25,533 (players laughing) 2436 01:44:26,400 --> 01:44:28,746 Let's see. That's, uh... 2437 01:44:28,746 --> 01:44:30,930 seven. You said 14? - [Brennan] 14. 2438 01:44:30,930 --> 01:44:33,390 - Hold on, how much Moxie do I have? (players laughing) 2439 01:44:33,390 --> 01:44:34,620 - [Siobhan] Spend all of your Moxie 2440 01:44:34,620 --> 01:44:36,242 on not getting knocked out. 2441 01:44:36,242 --> 01:44:40,239 - Eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. 2442 01:44:40,239 --> 01:44:41,497 (players laughing) 2443 01:44:41,497 --> 01:44:43,710 - So this guy fucking clobbers you 2444 01:44:43,710 --> 01:44:47,225 and fully spins your head around, Daffy Duck style. 2445 01:44:47,225 --> 01:44:49,330 Woo! 2446 01:44:49,330 --> 01:44:50,455 What the hell? 2447 01:44:51,830 --> 01:44:55,080 - Yeah, it's one of the things I've been studying here. 2448 01:44:55,080 --> 01:44:57,180 - How are you not dead? - What? 2449 01:44:57,180 --> 01:45:00,175 - I punched your head all the way around your shoulders. 2450 01:45:00,175 --> 01:45:03,467 - Yeah, I've just been studying up on, you know, 2451 01:45:03,467 --> 01:45:05,400 resilience in times of trouble. 2452 01:45:05,400 --> 01:45:09,300 It's a new major that they got here. 2453 01:45:09,300 --> 01:45:11,310 You know, how to really stand up 2454 01:45:11,310 --> 01:45:13,102 when things get tough out there. 2455 01:45:14,321 --> 01:45:16,437 (sounds of confused terror) 2456 01:45:16,437 --> 01:45:17,490 - I don't want nothing to do with you. 2457 01:45:17,490 --> 01:45:20,250 You're haunted. You're frickin' haunted! 2458 01:45:20,250 --> 01:45:22,200 I hate this! I hate this! 2459 01:45:22,200 --> 01:45:24,960 Turns around and just flees the scene. 2460 01:45:24,960 --> 01:45:27,600 You find yourself- (Trapp mimics neck cracking) 2461 01:45:27,600 --> 01:45:30,270 Sort of realign your head on your shoulders. 2462 01:45:30,270 --> 01:45:31,290 As Ollie flees, is there anything 2463 01:45:31,290 --> 01:45:33,330 that you are investigating or looking for in the library 2464 01:45:33,330 --> 01:45:37,410 now that you're kind of in the stacks, unoccupied? 2465 01:45:37,410 --> 01:45:40,590 - Can I look for, I guess, new arrivals? 2466 01:45:40,590 --> 01:45:43,410 I'm interested in what the latest memories were. 2467 01:45:43,410 --> 01:45:44,991 - Go ahead and give me a snoop check. 2468 01:45:44,991 --> 01:45:46,410 We'll call it a difficulty of six. 2469 01:45:46,410 --> 01:45:49,250 - Cool, I got no more Moxie. (laughing) 2470 01:45:50,853 --> 01:45:53,490 (Trapp makes a sound of disappointment) - Can I give him a couple Moxie on that? 2471 01:45:53,490 --> 01:45:54,510 - Yeah, absolutely. 2472 01:45:54,510 --> 01:45:56,261 - Plus one, so that's a five. So I just need one more. 2473 01:45:56,261 --> 01:45:57,930 - Okay, great, so I'll give you one Moxie. 2474 01:45:57,930 --> 01:46:00,120 - Okay, so you grab the Moxie there. 2475 01:46:00,120 --> 01:46:02,040 You start looking at new arrivals, 2476 01:46:02,040 --> 01:46:06,090 and you see one of the newest memories to come in 2477 01:46:06,090 --> 01:46:09,180 that you can kind of flip through in your head, 2478 01:46:09,180 --> 01:46:11,220 you see that the narrative sort of starts, 2479 01:46:11,220 --> 01:46:14,253 I walked boldly into Mr. Henry's office 2480 01:46:14,253 --> 01:46:16,860 knowing that this was finally my opportunity 2481 01:46:16,860 --> 01:46:20,490 to demand some answers and voice the concerns 2482 01:46:20,490 --> 01:46:24,120 that I had long been having, and in this moment, 2483 01:46:24,120 --> 01:46:26,730 I turned around as I was joined 2484 01:46:26,730 --> 01:46:29,790 by two of my compatriots at the company. 2485 01:46:29,790 --> 01:46:31,488 And that's the memory. - It goes black after that! 2486 01:46:31,488 --> 01:46:33,046 (players laughing) 2487 01:46:33,046 --> 01:46:35,471 What could this mean? That's weird. 2488 01:46:35,471 --> 01:46:37,710 - That's the freshest memory of the docket that you find. 2489 01:46:37,710 --> 01:46:39,870 - Okay, cool, I'm curious of the moment 2490 01:46:39,870 --> 01:46:44,867 that Imelda says she influenced him, when he moved the file. 2491 01:46:44,867 --> 01:46:47,880 - In the memory, if you go to one a little bit earlier, 2492 01:46:47,880 --> 01:46:49,860 you can see he ducked into a side room, 2493 01:46:49,860 --> 01:46:52,080 an unoccupied office. 2494 01:46:52,080 --> 01:46:53,880 It looks like, in other words, you're beginning to find 2495 01:46:53,880 --> 01:46:57,780 things of Elias being a little sneaky, doing some stuff. 2496 01:46:57,780 --> 01:47:00,150 This impulse to grab this thing kind of committed him 2497 01:47:00,150 --> 01:47:03,510 to a path that he was not ready to travel down, 2498 01:47:03,510 --> 01:47:06,270 and there is an office about 12 floors down 2499 01:47:06,270 --> 01:47:10,237 from Mr. Henry's office that he took his packet open 2500 01:47:10,237 --> 01:47:13,470 of all his research and spread it out to review it. 2501 01:47:13,470 --> 01:47:15,960 And you see in his memory, 2502 01:47:15,960 --> 01:47:18,270 finding exactly what I had suspected, 2503 01:47:18,270 --> 01:47:23,220 I turned around to head to Mr. Henry's office posthaste. 2504 01:47:23,220 --> 01:47:24,511 So you find that, 2505 01:47:24,511 --> 01:47:27,478 and you have this massive book with you as well. 2506 01:47:27,478 --> 01:47:31,620 - I go back towards Imelda. Pretty good detective work! 2507 01:47:31,620 --> 01:47:35,100 Pretty slick on my part, if I do say so myself. 2508 01:47:35,100 --> 01:47:36,997 - This book is big. 2509 01:47:36,997 --> 01:47:38,747 (players laughing) 2510 01:47:38,747 --> 01:47:41,207 Do we want to read it here? Do we want to take it with us? 2511 01:47:41,207 --> 01:47:43,650 I don't know if I want to read all of this. 2512 01:47:43,650 --> 01:47:45,000 - Can I just look around again 2513 01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:48,780 to see if there are any other prying eyes around here? 2514 01:47:48,780 --> 01:47:50,510 - [Brennan] Give me one last snoop check. 2515 01:47:50,510 --> 01:47:52,499 Call it a difficulty of six. 2516 01:47:55,050 --> 01:47:56,317 - That is a one, 2517 01:47:56,317 --> 01:47:58,499 but I will take two Moxie, thank you very much. 2518 01:47:58,499 --> 01:48:02,158 (ball sliding on a track and clanking x2) 2519 01:48:02,158 --> 01:48:02,991 Thank you. 2520 01:48:02,991 --> 01:48:05,088 - So, you have the book with you here. 2521 01:48:05,088 --> 01:48:07,530 It could take a long time to read it, so it's possible 2522 01:48:07,530 --> 01:48:10,528 that maybe this is something that you could get into later. 2523 01:48:10,528 --> 01:48:13,770 - Sure, yeah. Well, we have it 'til Wednesday. 2524 01:48:13,770 --> 01:48:17,103 And Wednesday is forever away, as far as I'm concerned. 2525 01:48:17,970 --> 01:48:19,116 Let's just steal it! 2526 01:48:19,116 --> 01:48:21,750 (players laughing) 2527 01:48:21,750 --> 01:48:22,583 - Yeah, all right. 2528 01:48:22,583 --> 01:48:24,347 I mean, I'm really curious about what's in this thing, so. 2529 01:48:24,347 --> 01:48:25,800 - Great, let's get out of here 2530 01:48:25,800 --> 01:48:30,800 and go to the De'lux Industrial place in Occipital Park. 2531 01:48:31,080 --> 01:48:32,910 - You all head off to Occipital Park. 2532 01:48:32,910 --> 01:48:36,570 Occipital Park, all the way in the back of the brain. 2533 01:48:36,570 --> 01:48:38,340 This is an industrial neighborhood, (techy music) 2534 01:48:38,340 --> 01:48:42,125 lots of warehouses and factories and working class places. 2535 01:48:42,125 --> 01:48:44,092 A lot of people commute in here. 2536 01:48:44,092 --> 01:48:45,006 It's a very industrial place, 2537 01:48:45,006 --> 01:48:47,738 and as it's getting later and later at night, 2538 01:48:47,738 --> 01:48:51,600 it's almost a little bit of a ghost town around here. 2539 01:48:51,600 --> 01:48:54,503 You see a few folks, machinists, 2540 01:48:54,503 --> 01:48:56,979 coming out of a motor control area. 2541 01:48:56,979 --> 01:49:00,000 You see a bunch of people that are just here 2542 01:49:00,000 --> 01:49:02,790 to coordinate balance and kinesthetic sense 2543 01:49:02,790 --> 01:49:06,503 walking out like, (sighs) long day of keeping 2544 01:49:06,503 --> 01:49:08,880 whoever this motherfucker is from falling down. 2545 01:49:08,880 --> 01:49:12,690 And then heading off to public transportation. 2546 01:49:12,690 --> 01:49:17,400 As you head towards the area of Occipital Park, 2547 01:49:17,400 --> 01:49:20,807 which is a bunch of visual areas, 2548 01:49:20,807 --> 01:49:25,500 you see the big lights of De'lux Industrial. 2549 01:49:25,500 --> 01:49:28,850 You can see it's De'lux, D-E apostrophe L-U-X. 2550 01:49:28,850 --> 01:49:31,291 You can see it's De'lux, D-E apostrophe L-U-X. 2551 01:49:31,291 --> 01:49:33,595 - Oh god, all right. Okay. 2552 01:49:33,595 --> 01:49:36,079 (Brennan makes a sound of satisfaction with his punnery) 2553 01:49:36,079 --> 01:49:38,270 - As you all sort of convene and look here, 2554 01:49:38,270 --> 01:49:40,490 the place is closed. 2555 01:49:40,490 --> 01:49:43,110 Obviously the eyes are closed, 2556 01:49:43,110 --> 01:49:47,124 so you know that's not too unusual, but normally, 2557 01:49:47,124 --> 01:49:50,590 there are some people around that can reopen the eyes. 2558 01:49:50,590 --> 01:49:51,777 There's machinery in here. 2559 01:49:51,777 --> 01:49:54,390 Looks very quiet, very dark in there. 2560 01:49:54,390 --> 01:49:56,157 What would you all like to do? 2561 01:49:56,157 --> 01:49:58,320 You see these other figures coming out of the mist 2562 01:49:58,320 --> 01:50:01,440 and joining back together here in this place. 2563 01:50:01,440 --> 01:50:02,507 - Just before we do anything, 2564 01:50:02,507 --> 01:50:04,597 I do a real quick catch-up on everyone. 2565 01:50:04,597 --> 01:50:07,560 - [Hank] Share all the information. - Download, download. 2566 01:50:07,560 --> 01:50:08,430 - [Trapp] Download, download, download. 2567 01:50:08,430 --> 01:50:12,873 - I don't know if we share the ice skate story. 2568 01:50:12,873 --> 01:50:16,410 That seems a little heavy. Not necessary at the moment. 2569 01:50:16,410 --> 01:50:18,998 - Yeah, the ice skates- - That was just for The Fix. 2570 01:50:18,998 --> 01:50:21,930 - Those are cool ice skates. You going skating later? 2571 01:50:21,930 --> 01:50:23,224 - We saw some skates. 2572 01:50:23,224 --> 01:50:25,465 (players laughing) 2573 01:50:25,465 --> 01:50:28,020 - I think this calls for some pretty slick detective work, 2574 01:50:28,020 --> 01:50:31,482 so I think we all know who's the man for the job here. 2575 01:50:31,482 --> 01:50:32,315 - Me! 2576 01:50:32,315 --> 01:50:34,440 (Brennan laughing) 2577 01:50:34,440 --> 01:50:36,182 - How do you want to approach 2578 01:50:36,182 --> 01:50:40,410 the closed industrial space of De'lux? 2579 01:50:40,410 --> 01:50:43,023 - I start walking towards it. 2580 01:50:43,023 --> 01:50:44,614 (tense action music) 2581 01:50:44,614 --> 01:50:48,960 I go over to, I assume, just a regular lock. 2582 01:50:48,960 --> 01:50:49,943 - [Brennan] Mm-hm. 2583 01:50:49,943 --> 01:50:52,019 A regular lock situation. 2584 01:50:52,019 --> 01:50:55,890 I pull out a hairpin, kind of snap it in half, 2585 01:50:55,890 --> 01:50:57,450 and start using it as a lock pick. 2586 01:50:57,450 --> 01:51:00,050 - This is going to be a difficulty eight sneak. 2587 01:51:02,670 --> 01:51:06,690 - That's five, and then six, seven, 2588 01:51:06,690 --> 01:51:09,744 and I'm going to use a Moxie. 2589 01:51:09,744 --> 01:51:11,252 (sound of lock clicking) 2590 01:51:11,252 --> 01:51:14,820 - The lock opens up. The door swings wide. 2591 01:51:14,820 --> 01:51:18,270 All of you enter De'lux Industrial. 2592 01:51:18,270 --> 01:51:22,680 Moving through the space, I'm going to ask everyone here 2593 01:51:22,680 --> 01:51:27,680 for a snoop, difficulty of 12. 2594 01:51:29,460 --> 01:51:31,590 - Go ahead and- - One plus two, three. 2595 01:51:31,590 --> 01:51:33,120 - Three as well. 2596 01:51:33,120 --> 01:51:35,610 - I got, oh, I exploded. - I also exploded. 2597 01:51:35,610 --> 01:51:36,665 - Yes! - [Hank] We have some exploding. 2598 01:51:36,665 --> 01:51:37,688 - Should I roll it again? 2599 01:51:37,688 --> 01:51:39,900 - [Brennan] Mm-hm, roll it again and add it. 2600 01:51:39,900 --> 01:51:41,842 - [Danielle] Nice. - That is a 22. 2601 01:51:41,842 --> 01:51:43,158 (players ooh) 2602 01:51:43,158 --> 01:51:44,648 - Oh my god. - [Alex] That's a 15. 2603 01:51:44,648 --> 01:51:46,420 - What's that? - 15. 2604 01:51:46,420 --> 01:51:49,410 - Nice. I got a 19. - [Brennan] 19, okay, so- 2605 01:51:49,410 --> 01:51:51,601 - That side of the table, - That side of the table did really well. 2606 01:51:51,601 --> 01:51:53,130 We don't need to know how we did. 2607 01:51:53,130 --> 01:51:57,000 - So, walking into this space, as all of you enter- 2608 01:51:57,000 --> 01:51:59,808 - I'm sorry, not that it really matters, 23. 2609 01:51:59,808 --> 01:52:02,430 - Incredible, incredible. You exploded, right? 2610 01:52:02,430 --> 01:52:04,110 - I exploded. I rolled a 12 and a 10. 2611 01:52:04,110 --> 01:52:06,540 I forgot I had the plus one. - Gotcha, cool cool cool. 2612 01:52:06,540 --> 01:52:10,713 So, figures move from the shadows quickly. 2613 01:52:10,713 --> 01:52:12,807 Anastasia and Hunch, you are first to act, 2614 01:52:12,807 --> 01:52:15,300 and you have only this split second to react 2615 01:52:15,300 --> 01:52:17,430 as figures descend on your group 2616 01:52:17,430 --> 01:52:21,150 as you have walked out into a wider chamber 2617 01:52:21,150 --> 01:52:24,660 that has this massive metal iris, 2618 01:52:24,660 --> 01:52:27,870 literally that oculus style big collapsing iris 2619 01:52:27,870 --> 01:52:30,930 where you open the eyes up. 2620 01:52:30,930 --> 01:52:33,000 - I try to trip one of them, at least. 2621 01:52:33,000 --> 01:52:34,879 - Okay, go ahead and give me sharp. 2622 01:52:34,879 --> 01:52:37,687 It's snap decision. Difficulty is going to be five. 2623 01:52:41,010 --> 01:52:43,470 - That is a three, and I'll use two Moxie for five. 2624 01:52:43,470 --> 01:52:46,860 - Hell yeah, so all of you watch Hunch leap into action 2625 01:52:46,860 --> 01:52:49,320 and just kick the legs out from under one of these goons. 2626 01:52:49,320 --> 01:52:51,810 - Sorry, I keep forgetting my pluses. 2627 01:52:51,810 --> 01:52:53,580 That was three, I already have a plus two on my sharp, 2628 01:52:53,580 --> 01:52:54,660 so that's five naturally. 2629 01:52:54,660 --> 01:52:55,530 I don't even have to use the Moxie. 2630 01:52:55,530 --> 01:52:57,570 - Oh, amazing, so you just succeed. Hell yeah. 2631 01:52:57,570 --> 01:53:01,275 Hunch, hey, listen, you're a big chunk of meat 2632 01:53:01,275 --> 01:53:02,880 who mostly just gets his ass kicked, 2633 01:53:02,880 --> 01:53:03,930 but you've been at it enough to know 2634 01:53:03,930 --> 01:53:06,120 that you can kick the legs out from someone jumping at you. 2635 01:53:06,120 --> 01:53:09,165 Bam, one of the goons hits the floor. Anastasia. 2636 01:53:09,165 --> 01:53:11,548 - So Anastasia, I am going to take off my trilby 2637 01:53:11,548 --> 01:53:15,420 - So Anastasia, I am going to take off my trilby 2638 01:53:15,420 --> 01:53:20,010 and I'm going to throw it on the ground, 2639 01:53:20,010 --> 01:53:22,170 almost like the banana peel in Mario Kart. 2640 01:53:22,170 --> 01:53:23,310 - [Freddie] Oh, yes! 2641 01:53:23,310 --> 01:53:25,260 - So that hopefully one of them slips and falls. 2642 01:53:25,260 --> 01:53:27,900 - Incredible, go ahead and give me a sneak roll 2643 01:53:27,900 --> 01:53:31,749 and we'll call that a difficulty of six. 2644 01:53:31,749 --> 01:53:33,630 - [Danielle] Sneak? - Snap decision. 2645 01:53:33,630 --> 01:53:35,490 - I'm going to go ahead and use my nerves of steel, 2646 01:53:35,490 --> 01:53:38,700 spend one Moxie to treat a snap decision 2647 01:53:38,700 --> 01:53:40,380 as a planned action and halve it. 2648 01:53:40,380 --> 01:53:41,640 - Oh, baby! 2649 01:53:41,640 --> 01:53:45,630 So, completely unfazed by the sudden danger, 2650 01:53:45,630 --> 01:53:47,329 you throw your trilby. 2651 01:53:47,329 --> 01:53:50,670 You see another goon slips and goes, ugh! Wool! 2652 01:53:50,670 --> 01:53:52,461 So naturally oily and slippery! 2653 01:53:52,461 --> 01:53:55,036 (players laughing) 2654 01:53:55,036 --> 01:53:56,910 Two goons hit the deck. 2655 01:53:56,910 --> 01:53:58,050 The other two are going to get to act 2656 01:53:58,050 --> 01:53:59,700 before everybody else goes, 2657 01:53:59,700 --> 01:54:03,945 and they are going to come for Conrad. 2658 01:54:03,945 --> 01:54:05,130 - Oh boy. (action music) 2659 01:54:05,130 --> 01:54:08,030 - Conrad, I am going to need a sturdy, difficulty of five, 2660 01:54:08,030 --> 01:54:10,980 - Conrad, I am going to need a sturdy, difficulty of five, 2661 01:54:10,980 --> 01:54:14,160 and I will need a sneak, difficulty of eight. 2662 01:54:14,160 --> 01:54:19,011 - Okay. Sturdy, three, but I'll use two Moxie. 2663 01:54:19,011 --> 01:54:21,600 - I can use one for two. I have loyalty. 2664 01:54:21,600 --> 01:54:23,209 - Oh, thank you. (players aww) 2665 01:54:23,209 --> 01:54:24,768 - Incredible. 2666 01:54:24,768 --> 01:54:25,902 Okay, so one of them, 2667 01:54:25,902 --> 01:54:28,559 you just burn one, and that counts for two. 2668 01:54:28,559 --> 01:54:30,542 - Oh wow, that's so nice. - So you get a plus two. 2669 01:54:30,542 --> 01:54:34,067 (group laughing) 2670 01:54:34,067 --> 01:54:36,963 You see The Fix actually, you are going to dodge, 2671 01:54:36,963 --> 01:54:39,690 and this guy's going to grab you and bowl you to the ground, 2672 01:54:39,690 --> 01:54:43,440 and you see The Fix, with this wild wingspan, 2673 01:54:43,440 --> 01:54:46,290 just clock the guy's arm out of the air and swat him away. 2674 01:54:46,290 --> 01:54:48,863 I'm going to need that sneak check, difficulty of eight. 2675 01:54:49,800 --> 01:54:52,080 - 14 plus two, 16. 2676 01:54:52,080 --> 01:54:54,090 - By the time that second arm comes, 2677 01:54:54,090 --> 01:54:55,740 after The Fix knocks the first guy out, 2678 01:54:55,740 --> 01:54:59,070 the second guy jumps for you, and you just flatten 2679 01:54:59,070 --> 01:55:02,760 as fast and quick as possible, just down. 2680 01:55:02,760 --> 01:55:05,940 Justin goes... (barking furiously) 2681 01:55:05,940 --> 01:55:07,560 Now the rest of you can go. 2682 01:55:07,560 --> 01:55:09,180 We'll go in order of highest sneak, 2683 01:55:09,180 --> 01:55:11,280 so I think Conrad, you're going to be first to act. 2684 01:55:11,280 --> 01:55:14,814 - Okay, I rush to go to Justin. 2685 01:55:14,814 --> 01:55:16,705 I don't know what else to do in this situation. 2686 01:55:16,705 --> 01:55:18,363 - Yeah, for sure. 2687 01:55:18,363 --> 01:55:21,060 Do you want to hide behind Justin, or do you want- 2688 01:55:21,060 --> 01:55:22,051 - No, I hug him. 2689 01:55:22,051 --> 01:55:23,517 (players laughing) - Aww. 2690 01:55:23,517 --> 01:55:24,743 - [Brennan] Oh, you go to protect Justin! 2691 01:55:24,743 --> 01:55:26,010 - I just hug him. 2692 01:55:26,010 --> 01:55:28,770 - Okay, you go and just hug Justin. 2693 01:55:28,770 --> 01:55:31,786 Just take a Moxie. That's very sweet. 2694 01:55:31,786 --> 01:55:34,860 That's just a very incredibly sweet thing. Incredible. 2695 01:55:34,860 --> 01:55:36,180 Over at this side of the table, 2696 01:55:36,180 --> 01:55:37,462 who's got the higher sneak here? 2697 01:55:37,462 --> 01:55:38,610 - I have d12 on a sneak. 2698 01:55:38,610 --> 01:55:40,181 - I have a 10. - Four. 2699 01:55:40,181 --> 01:55:42,893 - [Brennan] Okay, so Dan Fucks, you're up. 2700 01:55:42,893 --> 01:55:46,080 - I think Dan is going to see stuff going on. 2701 01:55:46,080 --> 01:55:48,210 He's going to clock that they're going for Conrad, 2702 01:55:48,210 --> 01:55:50,880 and then is going to say, 2703 01:55:50,880 --> 01:55:52,793 that little shit ran out over that way! 2704 01:55:52,793 --> 01:55:54,692 (Brennan and Alex laughing) 2705 01:55:54,692 --> 01:55:58,619 - Okay, this is going to be, I'm going to say, slick 15. 2706 01:55:58,619 --> 01:55:59,895 - Slick 15. 2707 01:56:01,210 --> 01:56:03,885 - Don't you have a hiding thing, too? 2708 01:56:03,885 --> 01:56:06,093 - I do. - 18. 2709 01:56:06,093 --> 01:56:07,680 - [Brennan] 18! - [Danielle] 18! Let's go! 2710 01:56:07,680 --> 01:56:09,900 - [Brennan] One of these goons- 2711 01:56:09,900 --> 01:56:12,120 - Senses my animosity, the truth within- 2712 01:56:12,120 --> 01:56:13,350 - The truth that you hate. 2713 01:56:13,350 --> 01:56:16,503 - All good acting comes from a place of truth. 2714 01:56:16,503 --> 01:56:18,498 - He says, he called him a little shit! 2715 01:56:18,498 --> 01:56:20,470 (players laughing) 2716 01:56:20,470 --> 01:56:21,303 You see he goes, 2717 01:56:21,303 --> 01:56:22,758 (western action music) 2718 01:56:22,758 --> 01:56:26,477 I'll remember that you did a favor for ol' Johnny Gullible. 2719 01:56:26,477 --> 01:56:28,235 (group laughing) 2720 01:56:28,235 --> 01:56:33,030 He fucking tears out of here. (speeding sound) 2721 01:56:33,030 --> 01:56:33,863 Imelda. 2722 01:56:33,863 --> 01:56:35,539 - There's three of them left? - Three of them left. 2723 01:56:35,539 --> 01:56:36,900 Two of them are on the ground, 2724 01:56:36,900 --> 01:56:39,090 but one of them is still going for Conrad. 2725 01:56:39,090 --> 01:56:41,970 - Hm, I'm going to go to one of the ones on the ground 2726 01:56:41,970 --> 01:56:43,800 and say, let me help you up, 2727 01:56:43,800 --> 01:56:45,925 and I just palm them some money. 2728 01:56:45,925 --> 01:56:49,592 (players laughing) 2729 01:56:49,592 --> 01:56:50,699 - If you just want to- 2730 01:56:50,699 --> 01:56:52,800 - I'm going to use one of my Moxies 2731 01:56:52,800 --> 01:56:55,770 to buy to ease a bad situation with cash. 2732 01:56:55,770 --> 01:56:57,300 - Uh-huh, hell yeah. 2733 01:56:57,300 --> 01:56:59,760 You use a Moxie. You hand it. 2734 01:56:59,760 --> 01:57:01,920 The guy on the floor looks up, 2735 01:57:01,920 --> 01:57:05,311 takes the money, and goes, hey. 2736 01:57:07,080 --> 01:57:10,530 I only do this bullshit for money, so problem solved. 2737 01:57:10,530 --> 01:57:13,774 Gets up and just slowly walks out on his way. New life! 2738 01:57:13,774 --> 01:57:16,232 (group laughing) 2739 01:57:16,232 --> 01:57:17,692 Incredible. Fix, that's going to be you. 2740 01:57:17,692 --> 01:57:19,410 There's one guy still up going after Conrad 2741 01:57:19,410 --> 01:57:20,568 and another guy on the ground. 2742 01:57:20,568 --> 01:57:22,721 - There's a guy still up? That's too bad. 2743 01:57:22,721 --> 01:57:25,521 (players laughing) 2744 01:57:25,521 --> 01:57:27,105 Is the guy going for Conrad 2745 01:57:27,105 --> 01:57:29,610 within reach of my very long arms? 2746 01:57:29,610 --> 01:57:31,050 - About half this enormous room 2747 01:57:31,050 --> 01:57:34,800 is within reach of your very long arms, absolutely. 2748 01:57:34,800 --> 01:57:36,030 - Can I try to grab him? 2749 01:57:36,030 --> 01:57:37,800 - Yes, you absolutely can. - Okay. 2750 01:57:37,800 --> 01:57:40,073 - He's going to roll sturdy. He rolls a four. 2751 01:57:40,073 --> 01:57:43,260 You're going to roll sharp against this. 2752 01:57:43,260 --> 01:57:45,338 - It is going to be a 12. 2753 01:57:45,338 --> 01:57:47,760 - [Brennan] A 12. You beat it by more than 5. 2754 01:57:47,760 --> 01:57:48,810 - 15, maybe. 2755 01:57:48,810 --> 01:57:50,220 - 15. - Yeah. 2756 01:57:50,220 --> 01:57:53,045 - Oh yeah, protector. This is absolutely a 15. 2757 01:57:53,045 --> 01:57:56,105 You grab this dude, no contest. Boom. 2758 01:57:57,270 --> 01:57:58,980 What do you do with him once you grab him? 2759 01:57:58,980 --> 01:58:00,300 - In his ear, I say, 2760 01:58:00,300 --> 01:58:02,880 I don't know if we've met before, but I'm The Fix. 2761 01:58:02,880 --> 01:58:07,500 Did you know that more than half the bones in your body 2762 01:58:07,500 --> 01:58:10,620 are in your hands and feet? - [Siobhan] Oh no! 2763 01:58:10,620 --> 01:58:12,750 - [Freddie] The most threatening thing I've ever heard. 2764 01:58:12,750 --> 01:58:15,952 - Legitimately, your fun facts are fucking nightmarish. 2765 01:58:15,952 --> 01:58:16,860 (group laughing) 2766 01:58:16,860 --> 01:58:19,948 - Imagine if someone said that to you. 2767 01:58:19,948 --> 01:58:22,587 - As he's holding you. - In a fight! 2768 01:58:22,587 --> 01:58:25,353 - You see the guy just goes, fucking kill me, man. 2769 01:58:25,353 --> 01:58:28,219 Just kill me, man. Fucking kill me, dude. 2770 01:58:28,219 --> 01:58:30,780 - Why are you trying to hurt us? 2771 01:58:30,780 --> 01:58:32,220 - I suck, man. Kill me. 2772 01:58:32,220 --> 01:58:35,131 Kill me, dude. I'm bad. I'm a bad- (players laughing) 2773 01:58:35,131 --> 01:58:37,020 - I need you to answer the question. 2774 01:58:37,020 --> 01:58:38,736 - I don't know, dude! 2775 01:58:38,736 --> 01:58:40,425 - Remind him of the fact again. 2776 01:58:40,425 --> 01:58:41,491 (players laughing) 2777 01:58:41,491 --> 01:58:42,630 - Whenever somebody says, 2778 01:58:42,630 --> 01:58:44,370 I'm going to break every bone in your body, 2779 01:58:44,370 --> 01:58:46,560 I think, that's ridiculous. 2780 01:58:46,560 --> 01:58:48,210 It'd be way too much work. 2781 01:58:48,210 --> 01:58:50,780 But I could break half the bones in your body. 2782 01:58:50,780 --> 01:58:52,590 - [Freddie] For not a lot of work. - No, no, man! No way! 2783 01:58:52,590 --> 01:58:54,789 He starts snapping his own fingers (bone snapping sounds) 2784 01:58:54,789 --> 01:58:56,022 (players laughing) 2785 01:58:56,022 --> 01:58:58,230 and passes out into unconsciousness, 2786 01:58:58,230 --> 01:58:59,910 which is the second person 2787 01:58:59,910 --> 01:59:02,340 The Fix has absolutely defeated in combat 2788 01:59:02,340 --> 01:59:04,581 through just talking to them. (players laughing) 2789 01:59:04,581 --> 01:59:06,321 Fuck this, dude! Fuck this! 2790 01:59:06,321 --> 01:59:07,421 (players laughing) 2791 01:59:07,421 --> 01:59:09,240 And you are left, and we go back 2792 01:59:09,240 --> 01:59:12,750 to Hunch and Anastasia, who acted first. 2793 01:59:12,750 --> 01:59:14,160 There's just one guy left on the ground. 2794 01:59:14,160 --> 01:59:16,980 - I grab him by the collar and say, who sent you here? 2795 01:59:16,980 --> 01:59:18,950 - Go ahead and give me a slick check. 2796 01:59:18,950 --> 01:59:21,780 - I say, if it helps, half the bones in your body 2797 01:59:21,780 --> 01:59:23,777 are in your hands and feet! 2798 01:59:23,777 --> 01:59:25,585 (players laughing) 2799 01:59:25,585 --> 01:59:28,560 - Give me a slick check. We'll call it difficulty of six. 2800 01:59:28,560 --> 01:59:30,150 - Okay! 2801 01:59:30,150 --> 01:59:31,353 Here's a go! 2802 01:59:31,353 --> 01:59:33,728 (players laughing) 2803 01:59:33,728 --> 01:59:37,650 Three. Nope, unless anyone can give me a Moxie. 2804 01:59:37,650 --> 01:59:39,328 - I can give you two. - I'll give you a Moxie. 2805 01:59:39,328 --> 01:59:42,270 - I can give you one, which is sage motivator. 2806 01:59:42,270 --> 01:59:44,220 You can spend a Moxie to help a friend, 2807 01:59:44,220 --> 01:59:46,560 even if I'm not present, but you need to remember 2808 01:59:46,560 --> 01:59:49,183 a pep talk that I gave you for that plus one. 2809 01:59:49,183 --> 01:59:50,940 - I only need one. 2810 01:59:50,940 --> 01:59:53,640 I can burn two to get to five, so I just need one more. 2811 01:59:53,640 --> 01:59:55,738 - I'll burn my one there for the pep talk. 2812 01:59:55,738 --> 01:59:58,200 Harp, flashback. (harp flashback sound) 2813 01:59:58,200 --> 02:00:00,041 - [Brennan] Flashback to a time that Dan Fucks 2814 02:00:00,041 --> 02:00:02,320 talked to Hunch and said something 2815 02:00:02,320 --> 02:00:03,420 about intimidating people. 2816 02:00:03,420 --> 02:00:06,463 - Yeah, let's see it. - [Trapp] I like how my memory- 2817 02:00:06,463 --> 02:00:08,580 - It's all you. No, it's all you. 2818 02:00:08,580 --> 02:00:11,910 - I remember you said, when you're intimidating someone, 2819 02:00:11,910 --> 02:00:12,900 the most important thing 2820 02:00:12,900 --> 02:00:15,113 is to touch down to their very soul, 2821 02:00:15,113 --> 02:00:17,160 the thing that they fear the most, 2822 02:00:17,160 --> 02:00:20,370 because that's the thing that will make a man crumble, 2823 02:00:20,370 --> 02:00:23,880 the thing that they think no one else can see. 2824 02:00:23,880 --> 02:00:26,744 Try to find that before you find anything else. 2825 02:00:26,744 --> 02:00:27,893 (Brennan makes harp flashback mouth sounds) 2826 02:00:27,893 --> 02:00:30,180 - The guy looks at you and he says, what? 2827 02:00:30,180 --> 02:00:31,935 Half your what is what? 2828 02:00:31,935 --> 02:00:36,900 - It was a thing I heard, but... (players laughing) 2829 02:00:36,900 --> 02:00:39,917 I try to look at him and I try to see if I can get a vibe, 2830 02:00:39,917 --> 02:00:42,660 I try to look at him and I try to see if I can get a vibe, 2831 02:00:42,660 --> 02:00:44,190 if he's a memory, or what he is, 2832 02:00:44,190 --> 02:00:46,050 and see if I can try to get a sense of him 2833 02:00:46,050 --> 02:00:49,110 and use his identity against him, basically. 2834 02:00:49,110 --> 02:00:51,996 - Looking into his eyes, you recognize this guy. 2835 02:00:51,996 --> 02:00:53,853 You saw him in a mugshot one time. 2836 02:00:53,853 --> 02:00:57,000 You know his name is Simon Praise. 2837 02:00:59,462 --> 02:01:02,580 - I grab him by collar. Listen. 2838 02:01:02,580 --> 02:01:06,356 Nobody loves you. Nobody has ever loved you. 2839 02:01:06,356 --> 02:01:09,559 Everything you've ever heard has been shallow talk. 2840 02:01:09,559 --> 02:01:11,520 - No, no, no! 2841 02:01:11,520 --> 02:01:12,750 You're watching Hunch talk to this guy, 2842 02:01:12,750 --> 02:01:15,630 and he is withering and emaciating. 2843 02:01:15,630 --> 02:01:18,777 No, I'm a good, special boy! I'm good at science! 2844 02:01:18,777 --> 02:01:20,703 - No, no one has ever been sincere 2845 02:01:20,703 --> 02:01:22,992 about any kind thing they ever said to you. 2846 02:01:22,992 --> 02:01:25,976 (slurping withering sound) Tell us who sent you here! 2847 02:01:25,976 --> 02:01:27,123 - Who else? 2848 02:01:28,088 --> 02:01:30,388 Don Avaricci. 2849 02:01:30,388 --> 02:01:31,537 (starts dying) 2850 02:01:31,537 --> 02:01:34,950 - I wipe a finger on his face and go, yeah, that checks out. 2851 02:01:34,950 --> 02:01:36,960 - Freak! You freaky freak, ew! 2852 02:01:36,960 --> 02:01:37,793 And dies. 2853 02:01:37,793 --> 02:01:39,480 (players laughing) 2854 02:01:39,480 --> 02:01:40,981 - Damn, Hunch, you're hardcore! 2855 02:01:40,981 --> 02:01:42,039 (players laughing) 2856 02:01:42,039 --> 02:01:44,532 That's why you're my favorite customer, my man. 2857 02:01:44,532 --> 02:01:47,133 - Thanks, man. That praise really makes me feel good. 2858 02:01:47,133 --> 02:01:50,741 (group laughing) 2859 02:01:50,741 --> 02:01:53,075 - Out from the door, you hear Johnny Gullible go, ha ha ha! 2860 02:01:53,075 --> 02:01:54,374 I'm not finding him! 2861 02:01:54,374 --> 02:01:57,599 (group laughing) 2862 02:01:57,599 --> 02:01:59,880 The goons defeated, all of you look up 2863 02:01:59,880 --> 02:02:03,660 at the giant metal oculus in front of you 2864 02:02:03,660 --> 02:02:06,900 and see a massive lever to the side, 2865 02:02:06,900 --> 02:02:10,200 a reflexive way to bypass the conscious mind 2866 02:02:10,200 --> 02:02:12,308 a reflexive way to bypass the conscious mind 2867 02:02:12,308 --> 02:02:14,545 and reflexively open the eyes 2868 02:02:14,545 --> 02:02:19,333 and at least restore raw vision to Mentopolis 2869 02:02:19,333 --> 02:02:22,110 of the world of the big guy, Elias Hodge. 2870 02:02:22,110 --> 02:02:23,679 - I think our work here is done. 2871 02:02:23,679 --> 02:02:25,204 (players laughing) 2872 02:02:25,204 --> 02:02:26,985 - I want to see! I want to see what's going on! 2873 02:02:26,985 --> 02:02:28,470 - I go and throw the switch. 2874 02:02:28,470 --> 02:02:30,248 - Of course, curiosity. 2875 02:02:30,248 --> 02:02:32,280 - Just jumping in. Let's fucking see! - [Brennan] Reflexively. 2876 02:02:32,280 --> 02:02:35,040 Let's fucking see, and again, you've been running around 2877 02:02:35,040 --> 02:02:38,497 dealing with memories and neurotransmitters, 2878 02:02:38,497 --> 02:02:41,460 receptors and sensory stuff. 2879 02:02:41,460 --> 02:02:43,587 This is going to be raw feed. (building string music) 2880 02:02:43,587 --> 02:02:46,817 This is before it even gets to the visual processing center. 2881 02:02:46,817 --> 02:02:49,590 You're going to get the raw feed of exactly what's happening 2882 02:02:49,590 --> 02:02:52,762 in the outside world, which is sort of interesting, 2883 02:02:52,762 --> 02:02:54,983 of course, because the outside world, you know, 2884 02:02:54,983 --> 02:02:57,180 you all move at the speed of thought, so the outside world 2885 02:02:57,180 --> 02:02:59,739 is like, ooh, what are we going to be seeing? 2886 02:02:59,739 --> 02:03:01,890 Hopefully we're not just walking in a hallway 2887 02:03:01,890 --> 02:03:02,723 or something like that. 2888 02:03:02,723 --> 02:03:05,977 Then we'll have to wait forever to get to where we're going. 2889 02:03:05,977 --> 02:03:10,860 You throw the switch, and light fills the room, 2890 02:03:10,860 --> 02:03:14,713 and you behold what the big guy beholds. 2891 02:03:17,428 --> 02:03:20,088 (glass shattering) 2892 02:03:20,088 --> 02:03:24,188 (all screaming and being shocked) 2893 02:03:24,188 --> 02:03:26,978 - Oh no! - [Siobhan] It's so bad! 2894 02:03:27,989 --> 02:03:30,690 - [Danielle] We've been defenestrated! 2895 02:03:30,690 --> 02:03:35,385 - Oh, dear Dr. Hodge has been defenestrated! 2896 02:03:35,385 --> 02:03:38,377 And that's all for this episode of "Dimension 20: Mentopolis!" 2897 02:03:38,377 --> 02:03:40,485 And that's all for this episode of "Dimension 20: Mentopolis!" 2898 02:03:40,485 --> 02:03:45,485 Tune in next week as we take a little tumble out the window. 2899 02:03:45,630 --> 02:03:46,463 See you then. 2900 02:03:47,535 --> 02:03:48,963 I angry. 2901 02:03:48,963 --> 02:03:50,554 - Yeah, you think? 2902 02:03:50,554 --> 02:03:52,379 (players laughing) 2903 02:03:52,379 --> 02:03:56,443 Sorry, sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry! 2904 02:03:56,443 --> 02:03:58,936 - Stand up for yourself! - (terrified) Okay! 2905 02:03:58,936 --> 02:04:00,990 - Oh my god. 2906 02:04:00,990 --> 02:04:02,917 We gotta get Elias to touch his balls. 2907 02:04:02,917 --> 02:04:04,750 (players laughing) 2908 02:04:04,750 --> 02:04:07,110 - What? - Hear me out, okay? 2909 02:04:07,110 --> 02:04:08,970 - I slap (slap) him across the face. 2910 02:04:08,970 --> 02:04:10,890 Curio, you're mad! You're nuts! 2911 02:04:10,890 --> 02:04:11,723 - Hit him again. 2912 02:04:11,723 --> 02:04:13,198 (players laughing) (slapping sound) 2913 02:04:13,198 --> 02:04:15,300 - Hey there, fellas. 2914 02:04:15,300 --> 02:04:20,253 Youse palookas come in here to throw some fists around? 2915 02:04:20,253 --> 02:04:21,786 - Yeah, that's right. 2916 02:04:21,786 --> 02:04:24,300 - I don't think you can take a real fight. 2917 02:04:24,300 --> 02:04:25,890 - I think I can steal a fight. 2918 02:04:25,890 --> 02:04:27,420 I think I can take all the fights. 2919 02:04:27,420 --> 02:04:29,280 I could take the fights and put them in a bank 2920 02:04:29,280 --> 02:04:30,510 and get interest on the fights 2921 02:04:30,510 --> 02:04:33,235 so I develop more fights over time. 2922 02:04:33,235 --> 02:04:35,290 - Compounding interest even, yes. 2923 02:04:35,290 --> 02:04:39,957 - The only thing that's gonna get com-pounded is your skull! 2924 02:04:39,957 --> 02:04:43,045 We have reason to believe that your cousin 2925 02:04:43,045 --> 02:04:47,885 may be involved with some ne'er-do-wells and ruffians 2926 02:04:47,885 --> 02:04:50,520 down from the temporal lobe. 2927 02:04:50,520 --> 02:04:55,520 - I haven't speaken to or heard from Imelda Pulse in years. 2928 02:04:55,520 --> 02:04:57,917 Me and my family are... estranged. 2929 02:04:57,917 --> 02:04:58,750 (Brennan gasps) 2930 02:04:58,750 --> 02:05:00,626 - You know what's going on in this city right now? 2931 02:05:00,626 --> 02:05:01,666 - Do you? 2932 02:05:01,666 --> 02:05:04,260 - I know something's going on in this city. 2933 02:05:04,260 --> 02:05:07,293 - You really want to know what's happening? 2934 02:05:09,480 --> 02:05:10,313 I'll tell you. 2935 02:05:10,313 --> 02:05:13,740 We get to feel good when I say we get to feel good! 2936 02:05:13,740 --> 02:05:15,210 And we don't get to feel good 2937 02:05:15,210 --> 02:05:17,910 unless we do what we said we're going to do! 2938 02:05:17,910 --> 02:05:19,680 That's how it works! 2939 02:05:19,680 --> 02:05:23,476 So, we're going to do things a little bit differently. 2940 02:05:25,496 --> 02:05:29,250 (scary reverberating sound) 2941 02:05:29,250 --> 02:05:33,010 Hello, Fix. 2942 02:05:33,010 --> 02:05:36,177 (cheerful jazz music)