( 03 ) video ✵ i got six friends and they all know your name

[stacked]

So, look, I get everybody's all jazzed about that list or whatever, and people wanna do the mourning thing. All good, have at it.

What I'm wondering though, is what we got working to find out who helped the dead dude get that way. Still pretty new around here so I don't know what you got rigged up already, but where I'm from something like this happens we mount up before there's a dead guy number two.

[ so that was... kind of a job application. if you tilt your head and squint. and to seal the deal. ]

Wouldn't mind helping out.

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[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

Because I want to know if you even remember. So that I can take the measure of what sort of murderer you really are.

[voice]

[stacked]

The kind that doesn't owe you anything, buddy.

[ she owes a lot of people a lot of things, is the subtext. ]

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

[A snarl:]

And I am not asking for my sake. I am asking because he deserves to have his damned name uttered. Because if you killed him, you should at least remember him!

[voice]

[stacked]

So, what. I tell you a name, you tell me I'm making it up? Screw you, Miles. You don't give a shit about some dead dude you never met's dignity, you got some issue with murderers and you wanna take it out on me. And that's fine, I'm a big girl and I've taken way nastier shit from people with way more right to say any of it, but don't put your shit on me. I got plenty of my own.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

...I'll only say you're making it up if you're making it up. I can tell when you're lying. So utter the name or prove that all your talk of repentance is just talk.

[voice]

[stacked]

It's kinda cute, how you keep thinking you know anything about this.

[ SERIOUSLY NOT GONNA HAPPEN EDGEWORTH. ]

Gonna do you a favor and explain things, here. Not gonna give you his name because for you, it ain't about him. You don't wanna honor his memory or whatever bullshit you're selling, you wanna make me say it so you can prove whatever freaking chip you got on your shoulder right. Least I can do for him now is not let some dumbass kid like you make what I did about you.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

[There's just a moment where he falters and wonders if she's right - whether the anger boiling within him isn't anger on the victim's behalf, but something more personal...

But what if it is? He sets his jaw and pushes away his uncertainty. Maybe his reasons for being angry aren't pure, but what of it? Justice is justice, and when it is achieved it is achieved. Hardly matters why it was sought - whether it was from a genuine desire to do good or base hatred.

He just wished that he hadn't rather liked Faith before, in spite of her obscenities and foolishness.

At least he can speak truly with this:]

It is not about me.

[voice]

[stacked]

Yeah? So why do you care so much?

'Cos you're not tripping I killed somebody, not really. You're all twisted up thinking I don't care.

[ beat. ] I can read people, too.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

[He clenches his teeth.]

Because - gauging your guilt is key to assessing the risk of recidivism. If you feel no guilt, then the risk of a repeat offense is high, and I shall have to take that into consideration while judging how great a threat you pose to the people here.

[voice]

[stacked]

Dude, I told you. I don't kill humans, not anymore.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

Variations upon the same are spoken every day before parole boards by the most hardened criminals who brim with excitement over the thought of getting out so that they can kill again. I do not put much stock in mere words.

[voice]

[stacked]

Is there a part of me turning myself in you're skipping out on?

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

[...Oh. Well - ]

A criminal will do anything to reduce his or her sentence, if being caught is inevitable.

[voice]

[stacked]

Yeah, but you totally don't have your mind made up or anything, right?

[ she could easily just explain how much inevitable wasn't on the books, but that would be healthy. ]

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

Don't speak as though I'm acting only from blind prejudice. I know your kind from many, many years of experience.

[voice]

[stacked]

My kind? You met a lot of seventeen year old chicks who kill vampires?

[ she's not seventeen now, but she was back then. ]

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

I've met a lot of criminals.

[voice]

[stacked]

Whatever you say, Beacon Hill.

[ which is her shorthand for 'yeah, and we're all the same, right?' and a side order of 'your judgey face is stupid'. ]

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

Do not call me that. Don't act as though you've any right to make assumptions about me.

[voice]

[stacked]

Sure thing-- you go first.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

I'm merely drawing conclusions based upon the facts you've given me.

[voice]

[stacked]

Yeah, and so am I.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

Clearly you're not, since your conclusions are wrong.

[voice]

[stacked]

Gee, why does that sound familiar.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

Don't be glib. You do not know me. I've collected enough information that I can draw conclusions about you, but the reverse is not true.