The following contains strong language and adult themes and is intended for a mature audience.

Are you bringing me a glass of wine?

Don't I bring you a glass of wine every evening?

You do. You're a wonderful human being.

It's so true. You look sad.

I was thinking about my sister.

Yes, it's a sad world sometimes.

So why do we give up so much to try to save it?

You're a hero, Dufus. That's your job.

Well, the pay is crap, but at least the benefits are nonexistent.

I beg your pardon.

Okay, not all the benefits.

Come on. We'll do one more round before sunset.

You lost the joust and were falling toward your death when you made it back to LA and went into the prison.

Right. And then yet another killer way laid me and took me to see the man himself.

Surge Orozco.

Another kingdom, the final season, written by me Andrew Klavin, performed by Michael Knowles.

Episode 9. The Mystery Solved

I had taken this drive once before, up into the hills to where the city disappeared, where there was nothing along the winding road except trees and wild grasses.

Coincidentally enough, the last time I'd driven here, there'd also been an assassin in the backseat.

Sarah, his name was. Kittenface, I called him.

A few days after we met, I'd smacked Kittenface in his kitten face with a piece of rebar and sent him falling off a girder to his death.

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