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[allucinator]

[Jack looks quite ill as he comes on screen: there are dark circles beneath his eyes, and there's a faint sheen of sweat on his face. He also looks a bit thinner than he did, though no one might actually notice that one. It's not severe, after all.]

Listen, uh, I-- I know you guys don't know me too well, and you got a lotta other stuff on your mind, but, uh, help a guy out, yeah? I ain't had no cigarette in about four days and I'm dyin' for it. Anythin' anybody's got, you know? I promise I'll do somethin' for you in return, I don't give a damn what, but-- anythin'. Please.

Please.

[He tries for a winning sort of smile, rather fails, and shuts the communicator.]

Comments

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

Quite a lot. I know, for example, about statistical significance.

[video]

[allucinator]

Which means what? English, Ace, English.

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

I'm speaking English. Just because you don't know the words doesn't make it a foreign language.

It means, Mr. Kelly, that one cannot take data from a limited sample and generalize it to all samples.

[video]

[allucinator]

That's how life works. I mean, what, if you try an apple and it's shit, you don't carefully sample all the other apples just to make sure they're all shit.

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

You're using the wrong analogy. Think of it like this: If you bite into an apple and find a worm in it, do you then assume all other apples have worms?

[video]

[allucinator]

I do if I see everyone else spittin' out their bits. Listen, I ain't whinin' cuz one time they roughed me up a little. I'm sayin' they beat up just about everyone they can, except if they're rich enough to pay em off.

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

And I'll take you at your word, though I've never known a police officer who was anything less than honest, and they are certainly not involved in these mafia-style protection rackets you're describing. But that doesn't mean that it's anything more than a localized pocket of corruption.

[video]

[allucinator]

And that's an excuse?

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

Did I say it was? If I were confronted with such officers, and saw indeed proof of their misdeeds, I should have them ejected from the force at once and charged with misconduct.

[video]

[allucinator]

How?

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

What do you mean, "how"? By bringing evidence of what they had done first before a board of review, then before the court.

[video]

[allucinator]

Who the hell would listen to a kid like you?

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

A -

[He scowls at once.]

First, I am by no means a "kid." And second, I'm a public prosecutor. I've a position of great authority!

[video] people are afraid of him HE DRIVES A DODGE STRATUS

[allucinator]

What're you, fifteen?

[video] Look can he finish one goddamn closing statement? Just - just one goddamn -

[jurisimpudent]

I'm twenty!

[video] I just wish he wasn't a liar.

[allucinator]

Fourteen?

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

You're one to speak!

[video]

[allucinator]

I ain't the one who's fifteen.

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

I am twenty, you fool, and what are you? Sixteen?

[video]

[allucinator]

Twenty-one.

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

No you're not!

[video]

[allucinator]

Prove it.

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

I can't.

[video]

[allucinator]

Exactly. So shhh an' listen to your elders, why don't you?

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

Did you just shush me, you - you - child?