1. First thing you'll learn
is that nothing is what it seems.
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2. Ignore your assumptions.
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3. Don't trust anything.
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4. What you see, what you hear,
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5. what people tell you,
what you think you remember...
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6. We are Envoys,
and we take what is offered.
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7. Let experience wash over you.
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8. Absorb it like a sponge.
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9. Expect nothing.
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10. Only then can you be prepared
for anything.
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11. Fuck.
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12. Fucking bone fragments.
Always get goddamn splinters.
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13. Who do you think they are?
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14. Who cares? We're getting paid.
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15. Have you always been such an asshole?
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16. Every sleeve, every time.
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17. What?
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18. CTAC praetorians, 12. Lethal loads.
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19. You see through the walls now?
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20. Three seconds or less. Move!
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21. Your body is not who you are.
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22. You shed it like a snake sheds its skin.
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23. Leave it, forgotten, behind you.
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24. The only way you'll learn
is by watching, so watch.
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25. Didn't cover this in the basic briefing. You'll be fine.
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26. They can barely walk at first.
Have to pull him out.
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27. I'm gonna get this shit all over me.
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28. You'll get used to it.
Just decant him.
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29. We've got four more to do
in the next hour.
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30. I think I'm gonna be sick.
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31. Not until you learn how to take out
the umbilicus, you aren't.
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32. Like this. Just give it a good hard jerk.
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33. What the fuck
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34. Sometimes they flop around. Usually
means their last sleeve died violently.
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35. Make it personal.
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36. It is you. You are the weapon.
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37. You are the killer and the destroyer. It is you. You are the weapon.
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38. You are the killer and destroyer.
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39. Get down!
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40. - This can't be normal.
- He'll be fine. Just get him in the chair.
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41. You get him in the chair.
All right, buddy, enough of that.
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42. Shit!
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43. We need help. Help! Help!
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44. - You broke my goddamn nose.
- Help! We need help.
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45. Fucking rerun went mental on me.
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46. Have to sedate you
if you don't settle down.
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47. - I am fucking bleeding here!
- Shut up!
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48. Listen, asshole. You better calm down.
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49. How long
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50. Two hundred and fifty years.
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51. Get me a mirror.
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52. No mirrors here. You need time
to adjust to your new sleeve.
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53. You risk schism or a psychotic break.
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54. He's already fucking psychotic!
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55. Get me a fucking mirror!
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56. You almost fucking killed me, man.
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57. I hate getting shot.
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58. Where am I?
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59. Alcatraz Prison. Bay City.
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60. What planet, genius?
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61. Earth.
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62. Which way's the shower?
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63. One thing I can promise you:
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64. coming back from the dead is a bitch.
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65. Every single time.
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66. Welcome to Alcatraz.
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67. You've successfully completed
your prison sentence.
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68. You may notice you are no longer
in the body you arrived in.
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69. Now that you have paid your debt
to society,
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70. you have been resleeved
from our available inventory of prisoners.
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71. You may feel confused or strange.
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72. After all,
you're not supposed to be here.
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73. Disorientation,
visual and auditory hallucinations,
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74. and even low-grade amnesia are normal.
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75. But don't worry. This orientation
will answer all of your questions.
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76. This is a cortical stack.
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77. As Protectorate citizens,
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78. we each have one implanted
when we are one year old.
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79. Inside is pure human mind,
coded and stored as DHF:
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80. Digital Human Freight.
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81. Your consciousness can be downloaded
into any stack, in any sleeve.
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82. You can even needlecast in minutes to
a sleeve anywhere in the Settled Worlds.
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83. A sleeve is replaceable.
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84. But if your stack is destroyed, you die.
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85. There's no coming back from real death.
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86. Warden wants to see you.
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87. So, avoid blunt force trauma
to the base of the brain
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88. and energy weapons fired at the head.
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89. When you wake up,
the world will not be what it was.
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90. And neither will you.
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91. They have forgotten who and what we are.
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92. Make them remember.
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93. Put that out.
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94. You...
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95. File's incomplete, parts of it sealed.
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96. What is here?
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97. Espionage, terrorism,
crimes against the state,
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98. and more murders than I can count.
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99. Takeshi Kovacs.
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100. You're under arrest for treason
against the Protectorate.
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101. Working for the terrorist leader
Quellcrist Falconer.
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102. I didn't work for her.
It was more like an autonomous collective.
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103. Close your goddamn mouth, you traitor,
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104. or I'll put a hole
right through your head.
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105. You moron.
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106. Good to see you too, Jaeger.
Been a while.
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107. Chase is over.
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108. Just give me an excuse.
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109. I know you got orders
not to make me into a martyr, so...
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110. be a good little grunt and take me in.
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111. Sleeve's fragged
but the stack's okay, sir.
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112. Who's the bitch?
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113. Nobody. Just a local merc.
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114. She doesn't even know who I am.
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115. You should've been respectful to me.
She would've lived.
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116. And when they
finally arrested you,
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117. you gunned down your own partner
in the stack.
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118. Report says she was shot
from behind, so...
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119. along with everything else,
you're a coward.
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120. Don't you have anything to say?
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121. Oh, I'm-I'm sorry,
I was waiting for a question.
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122. It was all monologue there for a while,
so I kind of tuned out.
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123. This is your parole document,
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124. certifying that your DHF was shipped
from Millsport Maximum Security Prison,
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125. received here intact,
and sleeved in this body,
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126. which came equipped with military-grade
neurachem and combat muscle memory.
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127. You've been provided with
clothing and incidentals
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128. as per the specifications
of Bancroft Industries,
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129. which has leased you.
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130. As such, you are the property
of Laurens Bancroft
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131. for the duration of that lease.
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132. Property
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133. You don't have any.
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134. Failure to comply
with the terms of this parole
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135. will result in your immediate desleeving
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136. and return here,
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137. to serve out the rest of your term,
which does not appear to have an end date.
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138. You're going to screw up.
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139. Do something violent,
hurt someone, kill someone.
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140. I know people like you.
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141. There aren't any people like me.
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142. Not anymore.
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143. There will be places where
they'll wait. The people left behind.
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144. Wait to see their friends, lovers,
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145. parents, children come back to them,
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146. riding unfamiliar bodies
out from digitized exile.
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147. They'll look into the eyes of strangers,
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148. searching for a glimpse of the person
they've lost.
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149. Cindy?
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150. Kristin Ortega.
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151. I'll be driving you
to the Bancroft residence.
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152. - Welcome to Bay City.
- Hey, hey, hey!
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153. What have you done to our daughter?
Cindy's seven years old!
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154. You get whatever's in inventory.
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155. She was murdered in a hit-and-run.
The law says she gets a free sleeve.
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156. That one's free.
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157. If you don't like it, pay for an upgrade
or put her back in storage.
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158. Daddy, please don't put me
back in the dark.
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159. They put a kid in that old lady?
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160. Victim restitution.
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161. The state just gives you
what they have on hand.
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162. Broken down crap like that.
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163. Prisons lease out the good sleeves
for profit.
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164. It's very humane.
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165. You don't approve?
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166. - They don't have that where I come from.
- And where would that be?
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167. Yeah!
What's going on here?
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168. You are all going to burn!
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169. Yeah!
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170. Let the dead speak!
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171. Justice! Let the dead speak!
Justice! Let the dead speak!
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172. - Justice! Let the dead speak!
- No resleeving!
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173. Shouldn't have come back!
Shouldn't have come back!
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174. Justice! Let the dead speak!
Justice! Let the dead speak!
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175. No resleeving! No resleeving!
No resleeving!
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176. You will not be forgiven.
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177. Come on. Let's go.
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178. God is watching.
He will judge you for your sins!
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179. Gonna keep him busy a while.
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180. Spirit Savers and Afterlifers.
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181. 653 failed,
and still they can't stop yelling.
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182. What is 653?
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183. Something about spinning up murder victims
to testify who killed them.
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184. Why wouldn't you spin them up
if they're witnesses to their own murder?
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185. Archdiocese says
you only get the sleeve you're born with.
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186. Once it dies,
they spin you back up for anything,
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187. even to identify your killer,
your soul goes to hell.
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188. What do you think, huh?
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189. I think no one in the archdiocese
has ever been murdered.
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190. You had to go be a dick.
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191. Stay down, Kovacs.
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192. Fuck you!
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193. I said stay the fuck down.
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194. What were you in for?
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195. You know,
little bit of this, little bit of that.
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196. Blew some shit up and killed some people.
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197. Some people just need killing.
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198. And how do you decide who deserves to die?
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199. Depends on the day.
I mean, anything can set me off.
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200. Interstellar dictatorship, genocide,
people who talk too much.
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201. Right now, I'm feeling pretty hostile
towards Laurens Bancroft,
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202. - whoever the fuck he is.
- Oh, come on.
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203. Everyone knows Bancroft.
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204. He's one of the first founding Meths.
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205. You don't know what's a Meth?
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206. How can you not know?
You're dressed like one.
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207. Like I said,
I'm not from around here.
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208. "And the days of Methuselah
were 969 years."
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209. It's Laurens Bancroft.
He's over 360 years old.
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210. They call it the Aerium.
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211. Guess they don't have this
where you come from either, huh?
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212. So, where were you born?
Like, home planet, that kind of thing?
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213. Not here.
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214. You ask a lot of questions.
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215. That's my abuela. She always said,
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216. "Kristin, you can find a way
to talk to anybody."
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217. Especially when they're trapped in a car
with you.
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218. Our quick and messy little lives
are so small to them.
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219. They build their homes up here
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220. so the clutter of our existence
is out of their sight.
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221. Right there.
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222. You see the ground?
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223. It's right there.
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224. Wow. Really stuck that landing.
You're not a driver, are you?
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225. I said I worked security.
I didn't say for who.
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226. So this hasn't been a conversation,
it's been an interrogation.
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227. Last chance. Just give me a name.
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228. Takeshi Kovacs. Look me up.
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229. You can't be who you say you are.
All the Envoys died.
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230. All except one.
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231. - Not another step, Ortega.
- Oh, come on.
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232. I'm Bay City PD and you know it, Curtis.
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233. Lower your weapons
and tell me where your boss is,
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234. because I really would like
a fucking word.
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235. Lieutenant Ortega.
You're trespassing on private property.
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236. Apparently, you've stolen
one of our limos as well.
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237. I could have you shot.
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238. Yeah, go ahead. Try.
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239. Why did you drive the Envoy?
Isaac was supposed to do that.
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240. Look, I'm not drunk, okay?
I was just loosening up a little.
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241. Let go of me!
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242. We picked him up on a DUI.
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243. Which is how we came
into possession of your vehicle.
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244. You all right? This is unacceptable.
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245. Just stop it, all right, Mom?
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246. It's your fault for sending me.
I'm not a chauffeur.
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247. Go inside. This is police harassment.
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248. Yeah, there's your kid, there's your car,
and there's your... new pet terrorist.
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249. You're welcome.
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250. The terrorist can hear you.
I'm standing right here.
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251. Yeah, good, 'cause we're not done,
you and me.
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252. Forgive me. I'm Miriam Bancroft.
We've not been properly introduced.
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253. Welcome to Suntouch House.
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254. Shouldn't that be in a museum?
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255. I have a weakness
for Elder civilization artifacts.
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256. I collect them, among other things.
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257. This must have cost a fortune
to ship here.
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258. Hmm.
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259. Several fortunes, actually.
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260. And a few lifetimes.
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261. But cost was no object.
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262. This is the only Songspire tree on Earth.
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263. No one really knows what they are.
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264. They could have functioned as part
of Elder civilization architecture.
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265. The largest ones ever recorded
are thousands of meters high.
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266. I know. I've seen them.
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267. Stronghold, of course.
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268. Laurens is in his study.
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269. I'll show you up.
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270. Is it true you can look into
a person's eyes
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271. and know exactly what they're thinking?
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272. Hmm, Envoys don't read minds.
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273. What a pity.
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274. Good luck, Mr. Kovacs.
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275. Mr. Kovacs.
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276. My apologies my son failed
to drive you here.
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277. You have to forgive
my endlessly misplaced optimism.
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278. That's all right.
The ride was very instructive.
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279. Hmm. Yes, I'm sure it was.
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280. Details are, after all,
an Envoy's stock-in-trade.
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281. Or were, I should say.
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282. "Immersion and total absorb."
Wasn't that the term, hmm?
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283. "Whatever answer you may seek,
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284. it is precisely
where you are not looking."
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285. - Hmm, you've read Falconer.
- Ah.
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286. I was alive during the Uprising, yeah.
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287. Yeah? So was I.
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288. Oh. Yes, my apologies. Uh...
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289. It's all in the distant past for me,
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290. but for you, of course,
it's all rather different.
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291. There are very few of us now...
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292. who saw firsthand
what the Envoys could do. Ah-ha. Yes.
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293. And I have to admit that
I had a grudging admiration for you.
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294. Trained by Quell herself
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295. to be the most formidable fighting force
that the galaxy had ever seen.
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296. Well, that would sound better
if we hadn't lost.
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297. This might... might interest you.
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298. Oh, it's all corneal streaming now.
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299. There's something about the simplicity
of holding the written word in your hand.
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300. The very heft of it.
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301. As men have done
for countless of centuries before us.
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302. It is a tie to our shared past.
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303. I bought it at auction.
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304. Eh, supposedly it...
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305. Envoys take what is offered.
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306. is written by Falconer in her own hand.
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307. Judging by your reaction, it appears
I might have got what I paid for.
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308. Listen to me.
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309. I spent this entire morning
being well and truly fucked around with,
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310. so, uh, let me be painfully clear.
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311. Some things can't be bought.
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312. Like me.
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313. Now, I didn't ask you
to bring me back into this world.
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314. In fact, I fought a war
to stop people like you from happening.
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315. So, if someone doesn't tell me right now
what the fuck this is all about...
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316. I might very well lose my temper.
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317. Hmm.
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318. Understood.
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319. Now...
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320. this is a full pardon, signed by the president
of the Protectorate.
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321. No one has that kind of power.
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322. Power is a matter of influence,
Mr. Kovacs.
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323. And I have had a great deal of influence
at the UN.
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324. If you agree to my terms,
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325. your sentence will be reduced
to time served.
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326. And then I will open up a very generous
line of credit in your name.
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327. DNA trace accessible.
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328. When the investigation is over,
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329. you may keep this sleeve
or choose another.
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330. To your own specifications.
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331. Finally, I will pay you a salary
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332. of 50 million UN credits.
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333. That's a fortune.
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334. Have any future you want.
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335. Now...
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336. all I ask of you...
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337. is that you solve a murder.
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338. Whose?
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339. Mine.
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340. Stop obsessing.
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341. So he was a soldier.
So he's still just another rerun.
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342. No, an Envoy wasn't just a soldier.
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343. Drop into any sleeve on any planet
and be combat-ready in minutes.
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344. Just read it. Read it.
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345. "Absorb local language,
culture and customs,
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346. and pass in almost any environment."
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347. "Infiltrate and manipulate computers,
systems, other people."
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348. Kovacs is a ticking bomb!
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349. Ortega, calm down.
I'm fucking calm.
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350. Okay. Bancroft resleeved
a terrorist into our city. Why?
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351. Um...
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352. Hired muscle?
Uh, expensive toy? I don't know.
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353. Maybe he's planning to invade
another star system over the weekend
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354. like a Meth version of laser ball.
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355. Who the fuck knows?
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356. You made me swear.
Listen. You need to take up meditation.
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357. This is a good time to meditate?
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358. Look, Kristin.
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359. - Okay.
- No. Listen to me. It's wrong!
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360. I know.
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361. Whoever he is,
there's nothing to be afraid of.
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362. No.
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363. Who's afraid? I'm not.
What are you talking about?
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364. Okay, look, what I meant is...
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365. Kovacs is gonna go back on ice.
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366. Where he belongs. End of story.
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367. This is where I died.
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368. When Miriam found me, my head...
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369. had been vaporized.
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370. It's an energy weapon?
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371. Yes. A particle blaster.
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372. I keep one for personal protection
in a biometric safe
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373. that only Miriam and I can open.
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374. Go ahead, say it.
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375. Everyone else has.
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376. Either I committed suicide,
or my wife murdered me.
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377. But you're still here,
meaning your stack is intact, so...
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378. you must remember what happened.
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379. I'm afraid it's completely destroyed.
"RD'ed," as they say.
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380. Then how—
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381. Have you ever heard of full-spectrum DHF
remote storage backup?
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382. Yeah.
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383. Just never met anyone filthy rich enough
to afford it.
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384. Well...
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385. I need to show you something.
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386. Sometimes I come up here
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387. when I have decisions to make
or difficulties to face.
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388. Think about the ancient explorers,
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389. back when one could spend a lifetime
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390. pursuing the possibilities of the Earth,
the oceans, the stars.
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391. I was born in London.
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392. When I first moved to what was then,
of course, called the United States,
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393. it still had the faintest echoes
of the new and brash culture
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394. that it once was.
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395. Oh.
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396. The age of adventurers is over.
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397. Well, take a look. Tell me what you see.
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398. It's a Protectorate satellite.
Military grade.
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399. Hmm. It is military grade,
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400. but it's not the Protectorate's,
it's mine.
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401. Every 48 hours,
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402. my stack is automatically needlecast
to it.
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403. So your current self
has no memory of what happened?
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404. No, whoever killed me
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405. pulled the trigger ten minutes
before my backup went through.
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406. Means all your memories
from those 48 hours are gone.
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407. Completely.
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408. There was an attempted hack
on my satellite feed
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409. moments after my death.
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410. Somebody wants me dead.
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411. For all I know,
you did try to kill yourself.
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412. You just botched the job.
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413. Mr. Kovacs, I am not the kind of man
who would take his own life.
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414. And even if I were...
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415. I'd not have bungled it in such a fashion.
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416. If I had meant to die,
I would indeed be dead.
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417. I don't want your money or your pardon.
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418. I'll take eternity on ice, thanks.
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419. You should take the day, Mr. Kovacs.
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420. Go into the city,
remember what it is to feel alive,
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421. and then give me your answer.
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422. Oh, and please do
take the book.
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423. Like everything else I'm offering you,
it's yours...
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425. Tak.
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426. All that water,
it's just like home.
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427. Give or take
about 80 light years.
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428. What are you doing here, big brother?
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429. I should be asking you that.
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430. That's easy.
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431. I'm not real.
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432. What's your excuse?
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433. They own everything.
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434. Just like she said they would.
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435. I don't know.
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436. Get fucked up, get laid...
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437. go back on ice.
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438. You look uncomfortable
in that skin, traveler.
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439. New sleeve
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440. I got Stallion, Somno, Tetrameth, Veuron,
Merge5, Stiff, Reaper.
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441. Oh, this is some epic shit.
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442. Then I'll take it all.
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443. Hey, bud. Over here.
Got some house quality for you.
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444. Hey, big boy.
Plans tonight?
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445. Fresh out of the tank?
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446. Luscious ladies of Heaven and Seven.
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447. Stretch out your skin
on that new sleeve.
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448. For just a few credits per minute...
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449. One is good, but two?
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450. Even better.
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451. The Houses may be out of your reach,
but I'm not.
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452. Come to Jerry's biocabins, the finest
in intimate experiences groundside...
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453. The Raven Hotel provides sanctuary
to the weary traveler.
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454. Come, let us enfold you
in the dark and delicate world of luxury.
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455. Panama Rose Fightdrome!
Always live, never 'cast.
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456. Come see the strongest,
most brutal combat sleeves
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457. tear each other apart
for your entertainment!
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458. Join us! Fight! Join us! Fight! Join us!
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459. What the...
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460. It's a broadcast blocker. Peace offering.
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461. Wanna get a drink?
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462. You know, I'm perfect right here.
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463. Okay.
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464. What are you doing here?
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465. Being followed, apparently.
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466. That's what police do
to psycho-terrorists.
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467. Come on, you cannot call me that.
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468. You could tell me
what Bancroft wants you for.
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469. I could tell you it was your case.
And you fucked it up.
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470. Are you high?
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471. Yeah.
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472. You're high. Just forget it.
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473. Wait, wait.
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474. Uh...
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475. Uh...
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476. Let's just start over, okay?
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477. I'm Takeshi Kovacs.
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478. Oh, that's right, I forgot.
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479. You don't approve
of the Uprising-era killing machine.
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480. I'm gonna pick the place.
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481. How do you know it was my case?
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482. It's called Envoy Intuition.
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483. Total absorb of everything around you
without preconception or assumption.
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484. - I see the details.
- Or you just got lucky.
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485. Luck isn't a word
I'd associate with myself.
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486. Yeah. Takeshi Kovacs.
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487. Mercenary turned Envoy
turned mercenary again,
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488. sole survivor of the Battle of Stronghold.
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489. Known by quite a few names.
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490. Mamba Lev, One Hand Rending...
What's the other one? Oh, the Icepick.
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491. Yeah. I like that one.
You should call me Icepick.
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492. So why would you care
what happened to Bancroft?
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493. Who says I care about Bancroft?
You don't like him, though.
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494. He wanted me reprimanded
when I couldn't find his killer.
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495. Tried to screw with my career,
which means with my life.
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496. And he's still fucking doin' it.
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497. You saying you didn't deserve it?
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498. I'm saying I polygraphed the wife
at her own insistence.
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499. She passed without a twitch.
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500. We chased down every lead.
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501. Friends, enemies,
people with opportunity and motive,
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502. and we always came back to the same thing.
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503. Laurens Bancroft locked himself
in his study and blew his stack out.
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504. And conveniently forgot that he'd be
resleeved less than an hour later.
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505. Let me tell you what went over my desk
the night Bancroft bought it.
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506. Four stabbings, ten shootings,
three of which were RDs by the way.
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507. One sleeve kill.
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508. Oh, no, not a sleeve kill, she was
a Neo-Catholic dumped in the bay.
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509. Since she can't be resleeved,
she was actually murdered.
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510. As opposed to Bancroft
who was incompetently murdered.
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511. Are you a moron or just an asshole?
There's no Bancroft case!
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512. Oh, honey, you don't like this model?
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513. I can be whatever you want me to be.
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514. No, thank you.
We'll take the check.
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515. No. No. We're not finished here.
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516. - Yeah, you keep saying that.
- Yeah.
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517. When a sleeve
has been slabbed for a long time,
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518. the body keeps making hormones.
Did you know that?
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519. Yeah. Everyone knows that.
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520. You know that first time,
when you're fresh out of the tank—
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521. Shut the fuck up.
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522. I'm thinking since you took me out
for a drink—
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523. You're paying, and one more time,
you're just an asshole.
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524. - Not the first date to call me that.
- Also, not a date.
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525. You know what my Envoy Intuition's
telling me right now?
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526. Without question or reservation?
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527. What?
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528. Bancroft believed he was murdered.
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529. Which made it a lot more fun
when I turned him down.
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530. You what?
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531. See, psycho-terrorists, we're not
so easy to predict as you'd think.
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532. Yeah.
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533. This isn't my world.
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534. Oh.
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535. I'm gonna be at the Raven
on Coronado Street
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536. if you change your mind.
You should change your mind.
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537. - You know that's one of the AI hotels.
- Mmm-hmm.
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538. No one stays in them anymore.
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539. Well, I got money and he's got girls,
so I think we'll be good.
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540. They're hardwired
to want guests.
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541. If you stay with one,
it's like sleeping with a stalker.
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542. Hey, I'm moved by your concern
but I'm gonna get myself a nice meal,
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543. couple of high-end hookers
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544. with a little better appreciation
for the stamina of the newly resleeved,
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545. and enjoy what's left
of my little vacation
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546. before I go back to sleep forever. Cheers.
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547. Felicitations.
You have arrived at the Raven,
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548. Bay City's most deliciously macabre
lodging experience.
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549. Fully cabled and enabled.
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550. How can I ease your journey
through this world?
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551. Ah, a room. The best everything.
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552. Food, view, entertainment,
private kind of entertainment.
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553. A much-needed respite
from the trials of bleak existence.
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554. The Raven offers VIP access to the
Houses of selective sexual tastes. Hmm?
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555. The Temple of Eros affords
an oasis of indulgence in the Mojave.
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556. Rock stars in Angels City.
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557. And let us not forget our own...
satellite of sin,
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558. Head in the Clouds.
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559. No fantasy beyond reach
for the client of discerning means.
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560. Well, I'm not that discerning.
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561. From the sky above,
there is always the mud below.
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562. I could guide you.
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563. No.
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564. For some elemental
and fast satisfaction in Licktown.
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565. That won't be necessary.
Just, uh, have someone sent to my room.
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566. Oh, the Raven can supply your chambers
with companions
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567. - and accessories for any decadence.
- Good.
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568. Perchance you could tell me
your preferences?
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569. - Nonverbal.
- Mmm-hmm.
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570. I know one particular lady of the
night who seems a demure clerical worker
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571. but carries in her briefcase instruments
of such delight it will tickle your bones.
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572. I'll take it.
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573. And how might you intend
to pay for your stay?
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574. DNA trace. Bank of the Nation.
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575. He won't be needing a room.
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576. So much for Envoy Intuition.
Voodoo bullshit.
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577. Pardon me, wayfarer,
we're in the midst of conversation.
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578. Shut up, you piece of digibrain shit.
My microwave is smarter than you.
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579. I just want one thing to go right today.
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580. Clearly.
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581. Too bad.
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582. Turn around.
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583. They said you'd be dangerous.
I thought you'd be bigger.
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584. They made me bring all this backup.
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585. What a waste of my time.
I don't need them.
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586. Fuck you, Dimi.
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587. Anyone else?
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588. I have to clean that up.
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589. What?
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590. Uh, he had it coming. He was rude.
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591. I could take you myself
without even breaking a sweat.
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592. Move.
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593. Good sir, I cannot assume
host prerogatives without payment.
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594. Host prerogatives.
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595. You're some kind of moron
staying in an AI hotel.
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596. Possessive like a crazy girlfriend.
No one stays in them anymore.
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597. I hadn't heard that.
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598. For guest amenities,
please touch the screen.
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599. Just one thing.
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600. They're hardwired to want guests.
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601. Possessive like a crazy girlfriend.
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602. Touch the screen within 50 seconds.
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603. You, shut up. You, get up.
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604. It's not voodoo,
which, by the way, absolutely is bullshit.
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605. Here he comes.
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606. It's a form of
subliminal pattern recognition.
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607. You know. It's... It's about the details.
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608. Where's the big bad Envoy killer
from the past?
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609. Twenty seconds.
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610. Fight, God damn it!
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611. What, you lost your balls?
Did something change while you were down?
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612. - Nothing changed.
- Ten...
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613. People like you are still stupid.
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614. I can now provide full guest amenities.
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615. I see you.
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616. Who sent you?
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617. I was wrong about you, Envoy.
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618. - Wait.
- Won't happen again.
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619. No!
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620. Ask this of your microwave, miscreant.
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621. Apologies.
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622. Your room beckons.
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623. If you'd like to freshen up
before the constabulary arrives.
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624. What happened to a meal, getting laid,
and restacking forever?
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625. I got interrupted.
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626. Who the fuck are these guys?
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627. I don't know. But they knew me.
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628. They called you by name
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629. Kristin. Four of them
are just local muscle,
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630. but this sleeve
is registered to Dimitri Kadmin.
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631. Ulan Bator registry.
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632. - We got him.
- Yeah.
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633. Got who?
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634. Dimitri Kadmin,
hit man out of Vladivostok.
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635. Otherwise known as Dimi the Twin.
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636. Does a lot of work for the yakuza.
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637. Dimitri doesn't trust anyone.
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638. So, he makes an illegal copy of himself,
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639. and downloads it
into a black market sleeve.
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640. It's called double-sleeving.
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641. The penalty is real death.
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642. We hold onto his stack, sooner or later,
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643. we catch the other version
of him out there,
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644. and then, he's done.
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645. Oh, motherfucker.
What's going on?
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646. Shit.
What?
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647. It's fragged.
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648. Let me see.
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649. I'm getting a positive ID, but...
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650. not enough left
to spin him up to interrogate. Fuck.
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651. You couldn't just disable them?
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652. I was coming to the defense
of my first guest in five decades.
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653. With enough firepower
to bring down an airplane.
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654. I'm fully licensed
for customer protection.
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655. And in any case,
his attackers were remarkably rude.
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656. You've shot people for less, so...
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657. Okay.
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658. So, Dimitri's a high
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659. Yeah. Top of the line.
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660. Well, then Bancroft's death
wasn't a suicide.
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661. Of course.
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662. Because who would want
to kill an asshole like you?
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663. Plenty of people. A few centuries ago.
See, I don't merit this kind of hit
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664. unless you want to stop me
from looking into Bancroft's death.
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665. So, instead of blaming me, how about
you apply your impressive policing skills.
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666. Less than eight hours
out of the tank,
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667. and you're up to your eyes in
organic damage and real death.
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668. I could find a way to arrest you for this.
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669. Yeah?
You make up your mind, I'll be upstairs.
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670. - No, you're not—
- Kristin.
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671. Leave it. Leave it.
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672. This enemy you cannot defeat.
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673. You can only drive it deeper inside you.
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674. Is that really what you want to do
with your only night on Earth?
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675. I don't know...
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676. how to be in this world without you.
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677. - I'm here.
- You're dead.
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678. Tak.
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679. I don't...
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680. I don't have to go back on ice.
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681. I... could just end it now.
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682. Make it stop.
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683. Just blow out my stack,
make it all go away...
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684. If you do that, it won't all go away.
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685. Just you.
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686. Tak.
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687. Two hundred and fifty years
is long enough.
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688. Move on.
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689. Never.
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690. You hear me?
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691. - Not ever.
- Then do what you were born to do.
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692. What I trained you to do.
Make things change.
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693. By saving a Meth?
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694. There's more here
than you're willing to see.
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695. It's not the threat.
It's the unanswered question.
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696. The mystery that needs to be solved.
The box that needs to be unlocked.
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697. Envoys take what is offered, Tak.
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698. Take this chance.
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699. This is how you finish the mission.
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700. Without you?
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701. Finish the mission.
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702. Mr. Kovacs. It's very late.
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703. I'll take the case.
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