orangetoughguy

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[Look when you're trying to learn how to use this device thing there are going to be mistakes. This is one of them. Beep beep. Click.]

"I thought he died."

"No, he didn't die. They don't do that kind of shit. It's Happy Days."

[Beep of a button being pressed. Slurping a drink.]

"Well he disappeared."

"Yeah, they call it college. At least in TV land. Either way, after a while it didn't matter."

[More shuffling...and maybe the crinkling of a wrapper...then:]

"You seriously watched Happy Days?"

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[The way he uses the words filter, unhackable, feed are just not common in Mr. White's jargon. But goddamn he's trying.]

So what? It's like a kind of a party line?

Yeah, like a perpetual conference call.

What for? I didn't take this place for Reno or Vegas.

That I don't know. I'm not a deity here. Did you just get here, too?

Hey. I thought you were a guy with answers, not...Zeus or something.

[Mr. Got It Handled said that he's got this under control. Sheesh.]

We're just passing through.

I have only the answers I...have.

You can't really...just pass through here. Not that I've heard of.

Huh. That so?

[Keep it cool, real fucking cool.]

That's so. Like I told your friend. You're stuck.

[To a greater degree this is like computer talk. He can hear what is said, it processes but fuck if it doesn't make a bit of sense.]

How do you know that for sure?