225 - Two Hundred Twenty Five

Breaker Whiskey

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[TRANSCRIPT]

[click, static]

I—I’m not sure what to do with that. “You seemed lonely”.

You always do this, say just the right thing to keep me wanting to talk to you—

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I know I seemed lonely. I was fucking lonely. I am fucking lonely. But if you’re observers of all of this shit—and there’s no way that we’re the only ones, I know that—then you have to be observing a lot of really lonely people. Why me? Why choose to talk to me? Why…(sigh)

[click, static]

[a beep]

Am I going crazy or did you just—

[click, static]

[four dots, two dots]

Say again.

[four dots, two dots]

“Hi”. You’re saying fucking…hi.

Well. Hi.

[four dots, two dots]

Is this Birdie?

[one dot]

I guess you remember. I— I want to be happy to hear from you, to talk to you, I do, but I…

Okay, same as last time—one dit for yes, two for no, three dits if the answer is too complicated to explain and one dash for “I don’t know”—and I better not hear those last two very much. Alright?

[click, static; one dot]

Right then.

[click, static]

Did Junior kill Don?

[one dot]

Did he— did he mean to?

[one dash]

It was a struggle, wasn’t it? They got into some kind of altercation and…

[one dot]

Right. (deep breath) Right.

[click, static]

Okay, uh, what else ask you…if you’ve been listening, am I right? Am I right in thinking that when I killed Billings, I branched us off into another future, and dragged Harry and Junior and Leann and— and Don and who the hell knows who else? Am I right about that?

[one dot]

Okay. I mean, not that I totally believe but…okay.

You and Fox—you’re observers. Do you control the timelines?

[two dots]

Who does?

[one dash]

You don’t know? You don’t know who your own boss is?

[two dots]

Fuck.

Is it God?

[two dots; one dash]

No, you don’t know. Okay. Helpful.

Do you know Fox? Personally?

[one dot]

Are you friends?

[two dots]

Are you enemies?

[one dot; two dots]

A yes and a no. I’m guessing that means it’s a little more complicated than just friends and enemies.

[one dot]

Yeah, okay. You both work for the same…entity though? You’re both bookkeepers for the universe or whatever you want to call it?

[one dot]

Are there others?

[one dot]

Where are they?

[click, static]

Okay, yeah, I guess that’s hard to answer yes or no. Are they observing different timelines?

[one dot]

How many timelines are there?

[one dot]

(scoff) Yes, there are many? What, is the number infinite?

[one dot]

Oh. How many are you looking over? Dozens?

[two dots]

Hundreds?

[one dot]

Shit, okay. And it’s the same for Fox?

[one dot]

And you don’t like each other…when you said you betrayed your job, did you betray Fox?

[two dots]

No. Did you betray your boss? Another…coworker?

[two dots]

Also no.

Did you betray…the people you’re observing?

[one dot]

Because what—because you observed wrong?

[click, static]

Did you interfere? Did you try to fix it?

[one dot]

Yes. And it went wrong. People got hurt.

[one dot]

Yeah, well, that’s the way it fucking goes, isn’t it?

Is that why you don’t like Fox? Because they’re trying to…I don’t know, are they trying to fix it in their own fucked up way?

[one dot]

They’re the one who turned me onto the Asimov book…that’s what they want, isn’t it? They want one perfect exact timeline?

[one dot]

And they’re going around to a bunch of different timelines, trying to correct it?

[one dot]

Jesus. Do I—do I have to die for that to happen? Do we all have to die?

[two dots]

Thank god. Does Junior have to die?

[click, static]

Birdie?

[bad interference]

Birdie?

[click, static]

Birdie are you there?

[click, static]

Shit.

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