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I'm your partner. I answer for you when you're not there.

Oh no, NO, NO!

(ESPRIT DE CORPS - Not far from here a 34-year-old man called Jean Vicquemare reluctantly picks his facial hair while a dark-haired woman in an officer's suit waits for an answer.)

'Pissf****ts'... what the *fuck* is wrong with you?!

You lost your fucking gun!? (He looks around.) I knew it. I knew he lost it. Didn't I tell you? I told you he lost his gun too.

Yeah -- not like *us*. Two clinically depressed old men. Where's the contrast here? We're garbage.

Thank you, lieutenant. You're being kind. It *is* an understaffed station and the district *is* too big -- which is why we need to... (He tilts his head northward...)

I've been there: Perhaps it's *not* because he's a petulant teenager in a 40-year-old man's body. Perhaps it's pale-related? Perhaps it's extraphysical?

No, nothing. It's just... Judit went to his place and found the Monday mail unopened. I think he's still *there*. You didn't, like, drink with him over the weekend did you?

You look like a fucking clown, Harry. *Not* like a funny police officer, but like a real-life, full-time, pie-in-the-face, unicycle-riding circus employee.

Oh you know me... always the joker -- just can't but see the bright side. (He's doing a weird dance imitation with his elbows.) Guess I'm just pathologically a *glass is half-full* kind of guy.

Fuck it. I'll get it myself, just tell me you have your *gun*. (He collects himself again -- dusts off his black suit, although it's completely clean.)

Thank you, Cuno, (he says with an amused half-smile.)

(With an agitated gait Satellite-Officer Jean-Heron Vicquemare paces the jetty, 22 kilometres East -- in Martinaise:) What could he *possibly* be doing there for so long, (he says.)

Talk to me, superstar. What do you want?

Wow... You seem stable. And in control. Allow me to say, alcohol really seems to have had a positive effect on you.

I'm not busy, you're not busy, let's just play around!

I just need to talk to Harry about some of the things I think he's done wrong lately.

Actually -- are you? Are you still a cop? There's so much disco going on, it's hard to tell.

Goddamnit, Harry... (He shifts his weight, crosses his arms, and looks you in the eye.)

(‟I can't imagine it anymore.”) Neither can I, partner. Neither can I... (His grey eyes suddenly flash above the glass frames. They feel sad.)

This shit does *not* leave this room! Not a word of this to the captain or anyone else. We'll give him a couple of days to pull his shit together!

Do you have any idea how hard the liberals are going to fuck us for this?

(“Khm... I *also* started a night club. In the church.”) What? (He cups his ear -- the wind blows.) It sounded like you set up a drug lab!

Dora something. Dora Ingerlund? (He thinks.) Yeah. You mentioned her name.

Yes, we can see the jacket. 'Hey everybody -- I'm working undercover in a *hard fetish gang*. I don't care about anyone or anything.' We've been through this.

Hard to say which came first -- the middle class chick or the drink? Egg and the chicken kinda thing...

I knew it. Didn't I tell you, Trant? I told you it was our shitkid.

Yeaaah... (He's rubbing his chin as he drags out the *yeah*.) Sort of. Okay. I get the reference. Like after he got run over or something.

(‟Contact Mike is a reprise of the most inspiring basic sporting principle of open competition! A 5,000-1 rank outsider!”) Oh -- you don't say? (He arches an eyebrow.) Does he also *vault an impassible gulf of finance and privilege*?

Okay, superstar. Talk to me, what do you want? You want a pat on the back?

(Satellite-Officer Jean Vicquemare rushes down the Precinct stairs, umbrella in hand. It's unopened. He doesn't seem pleased about the spring rain.)

I don't *want* to. But you discovered a new species. And solved the murder... (He shrugs.) So I *have* to. Jude?

Okay, okay! (The man sounds genuinely excited.)

Okay, why not. Let's do the whole thing over again. We're not wasting time. There *is* no time!

You lost your fucking gun!? (He looks around.) I knew it. I knew he lost it. Didn't I tell you? I told you he lost his gun too.

Oh, I definitely know you from *somewhere*. (ESPRIT DE CORPS - Another life...)

We've come to scrape what's left of you off the pavement.

Fuck it. I'll get it myself, just tell me you have your *gun*. (He collects himself again -- dusts off his black suit, although it's completely clean.)

(He's doing a weird dance imitation with his elbows.)

He can't be a cop, Harry. He's twelve. And he says 'f****t' every four seconds.

It's a scope. From a gun. Nothing about this even *remotely* proves the existence of a giant insect. Here's my theory, Harry. You experienced a *delirium hallucination*. It's typical of cognitive damage. From chronic alcoholism. Which is what you have. So you started *seeing shit* in the reeds.

You're not shitting me, Mullen. I can smell it all the way here. The whole town stinks.

Oh goddamnit, is he fucking kidding?