Look here. Do you see what’s in this bag?
Tapes. So what?
Your tapes, Indie. I have recorded one hundred and seventy-eight sessions with you, including this one right now. This is why it’s different. And you can play dumb all you want, but somewhere, deep in that head of yours, you know it’s different. This is just you being pissed off and making me work for the answers, that’s all. You feel in control when you fight me. You feel in control when I have to drag the answers out of you.
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My point earlier was this. It’s not that we’re unhappy with your job performance, Indie—
Oh, my God. Really? My job performance?
—it’s the way you react after the job is over.
I don’t understand? How do I react?
You don’t react. That’s why we worry.
What should I do? Cry and be depressed? How should I act after I do a job?
It’s not really how you react after most of the jobs. Just… some of them. Like this one.
What?
This job you were on.
I wasn’t on a job.
You were, Indie. You know you were. Right now, you’re just lying to me and I don’t like it.
So… I’m crazy because when I come back from certain jobs I don’t react right?
Well, that’s part of it.
Tell me the other part, Donovan. Because I’m tired.
You don’t remember them, Indie. That’s what I’m trying to say. You don’t remember them. And I have a feeling you don’t remember these past two weeks either. And that’s why you’re acting like this. You don’t want me to know that. But we already know. We’ve practically had this same conversation half a dozen times before. And you don’t remember it. That’s why I tape them.
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Do you believe me?
Maybe you could play those tapes for me?
No. I don’t think that’s a good idea.
Then… then maybe you’re just lying.
Do you remember where you were for the past two weeks?
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You can’t just shake your head, Indie. This is an audio recording. And I don’t want to narrate like this is a court transcript. I want to hear you say it.
Fine. Then yes. Some of it.
Some of it?
Most of it.
Tell me… who were you with?
Why do I have to be with someone?
Indie. You’re making me very fuckin’ tired. I’m not messing around. I am very fuckin’ tired right now. All I need is a few very simple sentences of where you were, what you did, and who else was there. Then we can all eat dinner and relax.
You mean pretend none of this happened? I thought that was part of my problem?
There’s a difference between keeping secrets and pretending it never happened.
I’m sick of secrets.
So stop keeping them.
All of them?
Don’t start with me. You know which secrets I’m referring to.
You’re gonna be mad.
OK. I might be. But what do you think will happen if I’m mad? Do you think I will hurt you?
Of course not.
Do you think I will hate you?
I don’t think so.
Do you think I will help you, Indie? Do you think Adam, and McKay and I will protect you, no matter what you tell us?
Yes. I know that.
Then why are you afraid of us? That’s the better question here. Not why are we afraid of you, because we’re not. Why are you afraid of us?
Don’t be stupid. I’m not afraid of you guys. I just…
You just don’t remember, do you?
I already told you, I remember some of it.
Tell me those parts. And we can go from there.
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You can sigh all you want. And did you hear that? I think Adam and Maggie are home. Don’t you want to see her? You can give her a bath. You can take a bath together. You always did love bubble baths. Come on. Tell me the rest. You know this has to happen. Why did you leave?
Because I… I got offered a job.
What job?
You know. The regular kind.
You went to kill someone?
Maybe.
Who, Indie? I need to know who.
No one you’d know. It was no one important.
Then why did they need to die?
Because they were bad people.
How do you know they were bad?
Because she told me.
Who, Indie? Who told you to kill the bad people?
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We’re there now, sweetie. You’re already there. One more word and we’re done here. OK? Just tell me who it was.
Angelica.
Who?
You know. That little Company girl that Nick Tate came and… abducted back when I was fifteen.
You’re… sure? It was Angelica?
Yes. Why?
Because Angelica lives very far away from here, Indie. Like… on the other side of the fuckin’ planet somewhere. No one even knows where that girl lives. Maybe three people in the whole world, tops. And none of them live in this house.
So? I did jobs in lots of faraway places. And no one knows where I live either. Except you guys.
Indie… Angelica is retired.
Well… I think that would be news to her.
So you’re telling me that Angelica Fenici is working? That she came to you and gave you a job? And that’s where you’ve been for the past two weeks? With Angelica?
Yup. Can I go take a bath with Mags now?
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Donovan?
What?
Are we done? Can I go take a bubble bath now?
Sure, Indie. Yes. I think that sounds like a good idea. Send Adam in, will you?
ADAM!!!! DONOVAN WANTS TO TALK TO YOU!
I could’ve done that.
Good night, Donovan.
Good night, Indie.
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ADAM: What’s up? What did she say?
She’s lost her fuckin’ mind. At least… that’s the best-case scenario here. Because if what she just told me is true, then we have a very big problem.