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Speaker 2: Lets, I think we got some footprints over here.
Speaker 3: Great flag it cover it so C I D can
get a cast you too, Move those cameras back, and
somebody tell that damn schopper to back off. It's disturbing
the crime scene.
Speaker 4: Is this the same as the other one?
Speaker 5: Timson wounds almost exactly like the last one.
Speaker 2: But but this is beyond fucking weird.
Speaker 6: I agree.
Speaker 7: Most of these wounds are basically these twenty minutes after.
Speaker 8: She was dead.
Speaker 3: What kind of creature kills something and then wounds it
twenty minutes after it's dead?
Speaker 2: Looking lies?
Speaker 9: We got movement in the tunnel, no less lethal. You
win the tunnel. Step out with your hands in the air.
I repeat, step out with your hands above your head.
Speaker 6: Get that can on.
Speaker 2: She's unconscious, fucking Velmont.
Speaker 9: Sir, Place the girl on the ground and get down
on your knees.
Speaker 2: What the hell?
Speaker 9: Down on your knees with your hands above your head?
Speaker 2: Is this how you help a man carrying an injured lady?
That's Kira Knightwood, she's a VIP. You need to get
hert of medical ashat go hands on. He didn't do anything.
I'm a victim. Here his gun and this knife says otherwise.
Speaker 10: Watch the hands kod Jack and I'm gonna want that
hardware back.
Speaker 3: Keep your big mouth shut a freg and just cooperate.
Speaker 10: Oh hi, honey, how's your day of work going? Mine
seems to be going to shit.
Speaker 3: Do not honey me, you selfish asshole? What were you
thinking being down there?
Speaker 6: Take your hands off me this instant? Where is Valmon?
You know the idiot, Miss knick Wogan. That idiot is
working with me. And as stupid as it was, he
saved my life. Why would you treat a man that way?
That was designed to take down creatures much larger than
a human. And you, woman, will release this man this instant.
He gave up his life for you and you abandoned him.
So abusing your power to bully him is some high
school level petty bit shit.
Speaker 3: I don't know what he told you, but I didn't
abandon him. I gave him a choice. I don't abuse
any power.
Speaker 11: I do my job.
Speaker 3: This man is located on the scene of a murder
with a recently fired weapon, and he consorts with convicted
criminals regularly. So he's coming in and answering some questions. Thompson,
put him in your squad and take him to the station.
Speaker 5: Sure thing, Come on, Valley man.
Speaker 6: Aged Black, Would you take me to my father? Please?
I may not be feeling like myself.
Speaker 10: Hey Thompson, good to see you, Bud. So she's still
getting pissed in me?
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 5: Honestly, no one kisses her off quite the way that
you do. It's almost like a god given talent.
Speaker 2: Ah, she still cares. It's sweet.
Speaker 5: She never quit caring, Fred Grenade. She just had to
make a choice. And I'm not saying it was the
right choice. For all we know, it could have been
the left choice, or the diagonal choice, or the sideway choice,
but it's a choice she made.
Speaker 10: Nonetheless, mayter not choose a side there, Bud. So how's
the wife and kids?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Cheryl's doing great and Caleb's walking. Now that's
even hard for me to wrap my head around. You know,
just because you and Shell's split up doesn't mean they
have to be a stranger. Why don't you stop on
buy for dinner? No, that does not mean that we'll
eat you. But maybe after the interrogation to night she's
making those bomb roasted Brussels sprouts.
Speaker 2: You can't say no, you know what, man, not tonight.
Maybe I'll drop by next week.
Speaker 5: Look, i've heard you bury yourself and work ever since
she moved out.
Speaker 2: You have friends help.
Speaker 5: You should let them be there for you, including myself.
Speaker 2: Excluding myself. I'm confusing myself, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 10: Yeah, maybe you're right, Bobby.
Speaker 12: Tell mister Kane. I'll be right there. I'm just attended
to some business. Hello, Dad, are you the lady of
the farm.
Speaker 11: Yes, I am there something I can help you with,
supposed to private property down at the end of the road.
Speaker 12: Why yes, ma'am. I'm Senator Graham Kinsey. It's a pleasure
to meet you, Miss Michaelson.
Speaker 11: I presume I am missus Michelson, and I know exactly
who you are, Senta, wonderful.
Speaker 12: I was hoping to speak to you or your husband.
I'm not sure if you're aware, but I'm trying to
keep my promise to the voters by bringing new industry
and jobs to our community and a company I have
spoken with slave more Pharmaceutical is very interested in locating
a facility out this way. Now, I understand your husband
owns quite a bit of lane out here, and I
would like to begin talks about the purchase of aparcel
a me have forty or fifty acres if you will,
and let's say seventy five thousand dollars nacre.
Speaker 7: That's a very reasonable offer.
Speaker 11: It is a reasonable offer. But I promise you this
land ain't for sale. I'm damn sure, not one of
your shady businesses, ma'am.
Speaker 7: I assure you.
Speaker 12: Slay More Pharmaceutical is a very reputable company with the
best interest of all mankind at heart. Surely you would
want to contribute to the health of your fellow human being.
Speaker 11: Wow, does that kind of bullfly in Washington? Honestly you
should know better than try that around here. Bless your heart.
Speaker 12: Well, perhaps mister Moxon will have a different opinion when
I speak with him.
Speaker 7: Hopefully he can see the importance of problems.
Speaker 11: My husband will tell you the same thing, only he
won't be nearly as polite. Now you ought to be
leaving before I decide I want to act.
Speaker 7: Like him, ma'am.
Speaker 12: I am here within olive branch, but I can bring
a switch if I need to. This offer may be
your only chance to choose to sell the land.
Speaker 7: I would consider it as it is most generous.
Speaker 11: Center.
Speaker 4: You don't seem to get your standing.
Speaker 11: I'm the one making you a very generous offer.
Speaker 13: They are a problem hereroes anything we can help with.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 11: I think the Senator's just a little bit lost, But
don't worry.
Speaker 4: He's just about to leave and not ever come back.
Speaker 7: Yes, well, I believe he may be right. I think
I saw a.
Speaker 12: Property that's better suited on the other side of the county.
Speaker 7: Get me out of here before these hillbilly starts shooting.
Speaker 8: That could be a problem in the future.
Speaker 11: He's not any different than any other stuff shirt to
come sniffing around our home.
Speaker 4: Maybe it'd be a good idea to cooperate.
Speaker 6: It couldn't hurt having a senator as a friend, believe me.
Speaker 11: All it could do is hurt. We keep her on
for a raison. Kiddy, and like him, can't be trusted. You,
of all women, should know that.
Speaker 6: I know the survivors, and sometimes that means doing what
you have to.
Speaker 10: So was this our new thing? You couldn't convince me
to do things your way. So now you're gonna handcuff
me to a table.
Speaker 3: We don't have a thing, mister Valmont. This is very serious.
People are dying. You could have died.
Speaker 10: No shit, I've almost died plenty of times. What's the
big deal about this time?
Speaker 3: This is different. You don't know who the people you're
working with are. Now tell me what happened down there,
and I'll make sure you're clean when this comes down
on them.
Speaker 2: Fine, I'll tell you the truth, Sarah.
Speaker 10: But just because we have such a history together, Chuckles
secretly works for a group of vampires and they have
some monster under the city trying.
Speaker 2: To kill them.
Speaker 10: There are people are losers, so they hired me to
help a three hundred year old vampire assassin hunted down.
Only it turns out there's more than one of them.
Speaker 3: That little girl you brought out is three hundred years old.
I guess they really don't age.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I called her kid when we first Wait, why
aren't you yelling at me for lying?
Speaker 2: How do you know about the vampires?
Speaker 3: Sucks? When someone knows all the secrets, you should know.
They're not all vampires, by the way, just their leaders generally.
Speaker 10: But you knew that, right, You knew that was out
there all this time, and you never told me. Wow,
I guess you really did choose the job over me.
Speaker 3: This has nothing to do with us if, Frank, I
just learned all of this yesterday when I took over
a special division and I tried to call you when
I discovered Chuckles was involved.
Speaker 4: But you won't answer my calls.
Speaker 10: Well maybe if every call wasn't you telling me how
much I screwed things up, I wouldn't screen them.
Speaker 3: I never said you screwed anything up. I said I
couldn't watch you risk your life like that All the.
Speaker 2: Time I risked my life.
Speaker 10: You're a cop in a city with my bosses, vampires
and who knows what else?
Speaker 2: What about yourself?
Speaker 4: What detective client? My client will not be answering any
further questions. So if you aren't going to charge him,
he'll be leaving with me. That's what I was trying
to tell you.
Speaker 3: Fine, I just don't want you to get hurt of
frak and.
Speaker 10: Send Thompson next time. Every time I see you, it hurts. Thanks, Sam.
How much do I owe you?
Speaker 4: Sam? My word?
Speaker 11: Frank?
Speaker 4: Are we friends again? You don't know me anything. Mister
Simon called me and asked me to post your bail
and escort you to a meeting he needed you to attend.
Speaker 2: We swing by my place for a few minutes.
Speaker 4: First, Frag, you can't really believe I would be so easy. Besides,
I know you'd just be thinking about her.
Speaker 2: What.
Speaker 10: No, damn it. I need a shower, Sam, and clean clothes.
I just spent six hours crawling around a sewer and.
Speaker 4: Here I thought that smell was the police station. Yes,
you definitely need a shower. He really is just the
same boy I grew up with in Glendale. He even
has toys on his bookshelves.
Speaker 10: Their collectibles, Samantha, It's a perfectly normal thing to have,
if you say so.
Speaker 4: I certainly don't collect things like that.
Speaker 10: Nah, you probably collect men's wallets or the happiest of children.
Speaker 4: Now, that is harsh. Why would you say that?
Speaker 10: Yeah, you're right, sorry, Sam, You actually always liked kids.
Speaker 4: Yes, I do, even thought about having them once. But alas,
I can't find a suitable father unless you are interested.
Speaker 10: Jesus, woman is getting me back in bed all you
ever think about?
Speaker 4: No, but you always were so fun to tease. I
can't help myself. I'll stop after all. If you get
any redder, I'm worried you'll catch fire. Ah ha.
Speaker 10: Oh it's so funny. Seriously. Should have been a comedian, yes.
Speaker 4: But being a lawyer days better.
Speaker 2: And they call me a mercenary.
Speaker 4: Look, no, I never said it, but I am sorry.
I frank honestly, I wish I could take it back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew that the moment I saw you.
Speaker 4: That's only one thing I truly regretting this life, and
that's what I did to you.
Speaker 10: I forgave you for that a long time ago. Sam,
we were kids and we were going in different directions.
Speaker 4: If you forgave me, then why are you always so.
Speaker 2: Hostile because you're a lawyer.
Speaker 10: The only thing worse than lawyers are politicians, Nazis and demons,
and technically sometimes the lawyers are worse.
Speaker 4: Really in your moral scale, demons can be better than lawyers,
and honestly, politicians.
Speaker 10: It's like pokemon, Sam, the lawyer evolves into the politician.
Speaker 2: So politicians are just worse lawyers.
Speaker 4: So we're the mercenaries and bank robbing crimelords.
Speaker 2: Fall What do you think is right above lawyers?
Speaker 14: Some are low ristorant.
Speaker 13: That has been too long, Mighty, the violent great to
be as above. These past centuries are far you well,
I see where are the others?
Speaker 15: Yes, I was told it was Ball who summoned us all.
Yet he appears to be late as always.
Speaker 16: My apology is great games, I have kept him too long.
Speaker 8: As we try. The well of suffering pain is so malicious.
Speaker 17: Don't give me, Brothers. I'm in a celebratory mood and
you can help it. Enjoy the drink.
Speaker 13: What would you have to celebrate?
Speaker 8: Ball?
Speaker 13: This is hell and we are its kings. There is
nothing better for us.
Speaker 17: There is the mordel realmlible.
Speaker 15: After all these thousands of years, you still dream of
breaching the mortal realm.
Speaker 2: We all know this is folly noly.
Speaker 8: Brother.
Speaker 16: We have tried time and time again, but the gate
is the only way there, and the arms of the
opposition await.
Speaker 8: On the other side.
Speaker 17: But I have found a secret oilness that we may exploit.
But where is Queenless? He would be most excited, I'm sure,
long as she wished to punish those constern for illness.
Speaker 13: The Great mother sits in her tower, as always a fool.
She does not come to us we must go.
Speaker 7: To her, and only if we all.
Speaker 2: Decide to carry a message as one.
Speaker 13: Only a food would go alone and tempt to rage.
Speaker 17: Very well, behold what has been this? But in the
city of Black Raven, in the country of America.
Speaker 2: There lies a source of power.
Speaker 17: Strong enough to bridge the family each year, and this
power grows. It must be ancient to be hidden so
long without our noticing.
Speaker 13: Fascinating, truly, this will allow for our agents to slip
the veil and bring humanity to our side much faster
than an orange skinned man. But how are we to
acquire it?
Speaker 8: Fear not?
Speaker 17: I have sent an agent to join with one who
seeks this power, together a scheme already to control the
city's children of the Dark Mother. Once they have that,
finding the sauce will be just a matter of time.
Then our interests will take control, and we shall be
able to attack at the gate on the other side.
Speaker 12: This isn't ruth to celebrates at the thousands of zousa.
Speaker 2: What's then, rudles all and the staff, You fools celebrate
too early.
Speaker 15: We know not what or where this power lies, nor
its creators. It could very well be the opposition's weapon
meant to destroy our Yes.
Speaker 13: Yes, I agree with the Yezobaba. While this is most
fortuitous news, we know not of its nature. We must
first capture this hour before we claim victory.
Speaker 2: Perhaps I should.
Speaker 13: Send the Seven, keep your playthings away.
Speaker 2: I Paul can bring us this power.
Speaker 17: This I sweat you brothers.
Speaker 8: Very well.
Speaker 16: We should let Paul claim restrictively for the great kings
of Hell. But should you fail and summer you all
will send in the Seven, either to claim it as
our own or destroy it so it may not be
used against us.
Speaker 7: On what is queen?
Speaker 4: Do we tell all of this development?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 13: We lead the Queen to her amusings best not disturbed
until we can present her prize work.
Speaker 2: The other phrase.
Speaker 15: Agreed, better to avoid her wrath than to end up
like the lost kings before us.
Speaker 8: There have been more death since I arrived to seek you.
You obviously don't have the situation in hand. I beseech
you step down and allow me to take your place,
that I might protect this great court and serve the
council properly.
Speaker 6: You have no interest in serving the council, merely your
own interests, unless you would like to join me in
my hunt to con all these creatures.
Speaker 8: Don't you already have a companion, a big, strong human
to fight the monster for you?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 8: Yes, here isn't how your champion doc come to heal?
Speaker 2: The fuck is this asshole talking about? I am talking
about you? Have you and the princess here come any
closer to solving this problem while you are being arrested
by the police today? Daughter? Is this true? Were you arrested?
Speaker 6: No, father, I was not, But if rig I mean
mister Vaumont was taken into custody by his ex girlfriend.
Speaker 7: That is so much worse.
Speaker 8: This man may be your fine handling their problems, but
really to allow him into our affairs on the pail.
Speaker 10: Beyond the pill, Kira? Is this the bullshit you have
to put up with all the time? Explains your attitude?
Speaker 6: I guess Valmont, Please do not make this worse.
Speaker 8: Yes, little dog, know your place and listen to your
better Keep quiet.
Speaker 2: Wow, I guess I was mistaken.
Speaker 10: I'm sorry, Really I am if I made though, sir,
mister Kane, you may be my better, but at least
my shoes are tied.
Speaker 2: I beg your pardon.
Speaker 10: Really, you felt for the oldest playground trick there is,
and you're my better.
Speaker 11: You pathetic little.
Speaker 16: It will make you beg me to kill you before
I rip your your check.
Speaker 2: By all means save me from having to do it later.
Of course, thing will be out in violation of.
Speaker 18: Article seventeen, Section five of the treaty, and my menmion,
I will have no choice but to eliminate you as
a threat.
Speaker 2: Huh oh, Now who needs to learn their place?
Speaker 8: I tire of this circus. I shall report this to
the Council.
Speaker 2: And you, boy, this is not Maybe you Feds aren't
so bad after all. I was serious.
Speaker 18: He kills you, I kill him, and everyone has less problems. Honestly,
I'm surprised to get him call my bluff.
Speaker 14: I play the game of chances against my best belief,
in search, fhead and answers.
Speaker 4: In the dark of the gain streets.
Speaker 14: I see the carcass, bleeding fellow, tears of us for
joy and concrete children vulnder see defect.
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