PAIN THRESHOLD - Feels like a knife.
PAIN THRESHOLD - Feels like a knife.
EASY LEO - βOnce Jean-Luc said he's a *dragon* to this mob fellow who came picking a fight with some Union men. Heh, I think he really believed Jean-Luc *was* a dragon, because he ran right off.β
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - That's precisely what he is. Evrart's dragon.
ENDURANCE - Failing is weakness and weakness is awful.
YOU - It's never not too late! I can *still* turn it backβ¦
ENDURANCE - No, it's *far* too late. All that remains is for you to feel bad, because you failed, and there's nothing you can do about it. That is the way of the worldβ¦
ENDURANCE - Do you know what today is?
YOU - My birthday?
ENDURANCE - No. Check your badge. Is it your birthday? No, it's not. Try again.
YOU - It's drink o'clock.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Atta boy!
VISUAL CALCULUS - These are the lines of someone who has written by hand *a lot* and has developed a style only they themselves -- or *you yourself* -- can decipher.
PAIN THRESHOLD - Written in a rush. In pain.
PISSF****T - βHey, we can be just as hard! Like a brick on top of another brick.β
FUCK THE WORLD - βOr a grave on top of a grave.β
LOGIC - Wouldn't a grave on top of a grave be just a big hole? What's hard about holes?
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Filling them up, baby!
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Fine. We're not worriedβ¦you'll crawl back to this bottle soon enough. We'll give you another chance. Booze *always* gives you *another* chance.
KIM KITSURAGI - βNow -- I'm going to report you and you're going to go to jail.β
HALF LIGHT - Oh no, you're a cop, you can't go to jailβ¦
YOU - βYou're joking.β
KIM KITSURAGI - βAm I?β He arches his brow.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Martinaise is speed-central. You just gotta poke around, follow your nose.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - You and speed will be happy again. You will make her come home. This time it will be different.
PERCEPTION (SMELL) - An apricot scented ghost wafts out of her -- her skin, the fabric -- into the flow of the air around you.
SHIVERS - All the roads will miss her footsteps when she's gone from here.
YOU - βHere's the money for the spirits.β
ROSEMARY - He hands you the bottle. βJus' make sure to *enjoy* that one, friend!β
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Son, you will NOT kill yourself with this. Not today.
HORSEBACK MONUMENT - A bright chromatic splash lounges across the surface of the monument.
ENDURANCE - Nothing to see here but disrespect. The old figure will outlive this pathetic lick of paint. The past always endures.
PAIN THRESHOLD - Dolores Deiβ¦so, *so* beautiful.
YOU - Am I a smoker?
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Who knows what you are? A monster, a murderer, the Gnome of Geroma?
WORKING CLASS CORPSE - A man lies on the boardwalk, his limbs bent and neck turned at an unnatural angle.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Half of his body has slipped between the cracked boardwalk, starting with the right leg. The fall has left him broken, contorted like a sad puppet.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - There is only one way to awake this bone idle from his slumber. Roar like a hurricane, rip the buildings from the Earth!
YOU - βWAKE UP! THIS IS AN ORDER, I AM THE LAW.β
SLEEPING DOCKWORKER - βWhy the yelling, man?β
HALF LIGHT - You're a real killer, Harry.
INLAND EMPIRE - A bloodstained killer.
YOU - βKim, I think I should tell people to fuck off more often. It felt really good.β
KIM KITSURAGI - βNot as a general rule, but that one was justified. Better to get the lay of the land before saying fuck off.β
YOU - Fuck yeah, motherfuckers!
HALF LIGHT - That's the spirit!
SAVOIR FAIRE - Miss Oranje Disco Dancerβ¦You want to put your hand on her back and feel it arch.
YOU - What isβ¦happening?
ENDURANCE - Air moves in your windpipe. Your heart beats. You're a detective -- get back to detecting.
KIM KITSURAGI - βThe problem isn't time, it's you, detectiveβ¦If you're serious about this, then I suggest you take a long, hard look in the mirror and ask yourself what's really going onβ¦.β
ENDURANCE - The lieutenant is right. It's the only way forward. Face yourself, kingsman!
GASTON MARTIN - β*Mon dieu*. Good job, officer. That was an excellent throw!β
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - There are no two more harmful words an athlete can hear than *good job*.
YOU - Tell me a secret of the sands, wind.
SHIVERS - Someone's stuffed a big old polar anorak into a concrete pipe under the boardwalk. It would keep you warm. You will probably never happen across it, but who knows.
LILIENNE, THE NET PICKER - βThere's only so much mourning you can do for a drunk with sinewy muscles.β
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - She really liked those muscles though. It's in the way she pronounces 'sinewy'.
PAIN THRESHOLD - Sounds like you're a potential Suicide Cop! With his finger on the *eject* button. Ready to let go of this life! Guess what?
YOU - What's that?
PAIN THRESHOLD - One bullet should do the trick. You have the gunβ¦and you have the bullet.
YOU - Tastes like a kiss.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - It tastes like *many* things, all melting into one conflagration in the back of your throat.
PAIN THRESHOLD - His wife left him. He needs to kill himself -- make her sorry she did.
PAIN THRESHOLD - There's tenderness in the carabineer's look. Tenderness that's curdled into pain or something darker.
YOU - Ex-love, ex-tendernessβ¦
PAIN THRESHOLD - Even worse, a love aborted and smothered, stamped beneath his brilliant boot heel.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Disappointment washes over you as you stare into the almost-empty ice cream maker.
YOU - βWhat? No ice creamβ¦β
KIM KITSURAGI - βA scoop of ice cream would have been nice, yes,β the lieutenant agrees.