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Bull offers them drugs, and Mai asks for ones to make her forget things. Everyone gets in the van, and they drive off into the late night. | Bull offers them drugs, and Mai asks for ones to make her forget things. Everyone gets in the van, and they drive off into the late night. | ||
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The dimension walk tunnel exits at the Craft Bar, miles from where they started. Bull thinks about how to get his van back. Panix, angry, threatens the Nazi with fire sorcery. They borrow Elspeth' | The dimension walk tunnel exits at the Craft Bar, miles from where they started. Bull thinks about how to get his van back. Panix, angry, threatens the Nazi with fire sorcery. They borrow Elspeth' | ||
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Bull arranges a ride from a contact, and he and Mai return to the van at the Temple, discussing the pumping operation in the South Deering marsh with Louis as they go. He gives them tips on how to sabotage such a pump if needed. | Bull arranges a ride from a contact, and he and Mai return to the van at the Temple, discussing the pumping operation in the South Deering marsh with Louis as they go. He gives them tips on how to sabotage such a pump if needed. | ||
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To Bull's relief, the van and it's contents are still near the temple, and he goes to check it out. Mai confronts somebody watching them from under a nearby tree. He offers to trade some information, | To Bull's relief, the van and it's contents are still near the temple, and he goes to check it out. Mai confronts somebody watching them from under a nearby tree. He offers to trade some information, | ||
- | They examine the van, but can't find anything, getting the feeling that they' | + | They examine the van, but can't find anything, getting the feeling that they' |
+ | ===== A-1 Pest Control ===== | ||
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+ | On the way to A-1 Pest Contol, Bull's employers, Mai tells Bull stories of things the underground has done. Bull tells exterminator stories. | ||
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+ | They arrive at the dispatch yard, and it appears to be fortunately deserted at this time. A big " | ||
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+ | Bull grabs some things and they trap the bug in the van with a bug bomb going off. The noises from inside the van cease. Bull puts his stuff into a different exterminator van. | ||
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+ | The dispatcher, Holly, arrives with a date (apparently not having anywhere else to go), not noticing Bull and Mai. Bull and Mai flirt while listening to what's going on in the dispatcher office. | ||
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+ | They quietly find a container to put the bug in, and open the van. Mai stabs it to be sure it's dead... but this actually wakes it up, despite being more damaged than one would think an organism would take (apparently capable of regenerating to some extent). It runs again, and creates a racket in the process that alerts Holly that somebody is in the garage. Bull sets the thing on fire as Holly comes out of the office. | ||
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+ | She sees what's going on, and Bull decides to chase it with a bat. Before he can get to it, the thing stings Holly, paralyzing her, and (perhaps looking to put out the flames) climbs into her mouth. | ||
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+ | Her date comes out of the office to see what's going on, and sees Bull use a pliers to pull the bug's head off, putting both parts in separate jars. Holly dies. They tie her date up and put him in the new van, along with Holly' | ||
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+ | At Mai's office, Leo arrives, and they try to figure out what to do with Holly' | ||
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+ | They partake in some drugs themselves for therapeutic reasons and Leo decides to call Nell. He tries to reassure her as Bull and Mai share a trip. | ||
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+ | Fredrick (one of the three metal boys) pokes his head in, and when Mai and Bull come down, tells them that there' | ||
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+ | As they try to leave the neighborhood of Mai's office to head for the farm, they note that there' | ||
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+ | ===== Faith at the Farm ===== | ||
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+ | After picking up reinforcements, | ||
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+ | Faith is found on her makeshift " | ||
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+ | Mai goes to visit the unicorn (which the elf girl has taken to calling Candy), and convinces it to stop sending power to Faith. Faith is infuriated, and starts to lift Leo up off the ground with her telekinesis. Mai returns to Faith and the rest, and Faith drops Leo. | ||
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+ | Mai tells her to stop breaking down the walls, but Faith claims she's creating her own new reality, and isn't sure who's invited. Mai argues that Faith should be grateful that they saved her, when she was trying to kill them. Faith argues that it's not really being saved if she isn't free to be herself. | ||
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+ | Leo cuts through the argument by announcing a death sentence for Faith. He explains that she's too dangerous to be allowed to live, much to Loris' dismay. Faith stands to defend herself, and Leo puts a bullet in her head. Mai questions why he did this. | ||
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+ | Loris, inconsolable, | ||
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+ | Mai goes back to the unicorn. She discusses the state of affairs with Beta Three, who suggests maybe she should apologize to Leo about shooting Ezra. And generally to use more diplomacy with her team-mates than force in the future. | ||
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+ | They decide to head back to Chicago, intending to go to the DBC finally, and leave Fredrick in charge of watching after Loris. Before they leave, Loris demands that Faith be buried on the farm. Mai wants to take her body back to Chicago so they can use it as an offering to the Tall Ones in the DBC (telling Loris that she'll be " | ||
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+ | Mai and Leo argue about who has been less responsible with killing members of the underground. Loris figures out what's up, and tells Mai she should take his body too then. Mai almost kills him, instead shooting him in the arm. Darcy, angry with Mai and Leo, bandages Loris up, and they put him in the van to make sure he gets to a doctor. | ||
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+ | The van ride back is very tense. They return to the base, their captive being very nervous about being brought in blindfolded. They tell Doreen to fix Loris' injuries, but then reconsider, given his morale, and to save Doreen' | ||
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- | Back to [[Chicago Synopsis 3|Synopsis 3]]. | + | * Back to [[Chicago Synopsis 3|Synopsis 3]]. |
+ | * On to [[Chicago Synopsis 5|Synopsis 5]]. | ||