05: Video: "Thin line between Heaven and here." - Bubbles

[omar]

So just for today, we connected to the outside? [This worries him more than he'd like to let on, with the possibility of the dead dropping in for a chat, but...]

Anyone wanna get a message to Marlo Stanfield for me? Barring that, hey, someone bring me up some lake trout and a pack of Marlboro, I be real grateful.

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[kissthatgoodbye]

[And he doesn't stop now.]

Chatty kinda guy, arentcha, Omar? That's okay.

Doesn't sound like it's really a picnic up there anyway.

[omar]

Not so much. You had words with your brother yet?

[kissthatgoodbye]

Why would I want to do that? He's over there talking in code like some damn computer or something.

[Not a sir or a serial number in sight with this one. Eff Manticore, man.]

[omar]

That a lifelong habit of his?

[kissthatgoodbye]

Wouldn't know - never met him.

That's not what my friend who did says, though. She thinks he was a sweet kid.

[omar]

Once upon a time, right?

What you mean, never met him?

[kissthatgoodbye]

Something like that. Come to think of it, a lot of those stories did end with a lot worse than murder.

[Stop being amused, asshole. Alec shrugs casually, dismissively.]

I mean I never met him. I guess it's not good for business for twins to meet each other in case they get some wild ideas like hey, maybe we're people and not toasters or something.

Might've been assigned together later, some of us were, but that jerk and his unit skipped out on Daycare Bootcamp before they graduated.

[omar]

Look, man, I don't know none of this here all past history, and I got no inclination to. Y'all soldiers, right? That's what you saying? Go play soldiers with him, then. I don't want nothing to do with it. I gots no truck with soldiers, anyways.

[kissthatgoodbye]

[Alec raises both eyebrows, then both hands, makes sure Omar sees him mouthing "oooookay" before he clears his throat and replies with completely insincere politeness.]

You could say that - but if it's all the same to you, I think I'll just exit stage reality. This has been a blast and all, but all good things, yadda.