Post by Alex Richards on Nov 26, 2017 11:34:40 GMT -6
Alex Richards: Not our heroes. Not our heroes. That was the rallying cry of Kevin Bishop and the Brotherhood. But the real question is.. why would we have wanted to be their heroes? If the Guardians were the type of people who The Brotherhood looked up to then we wouldn't be heroes at all.
The camera pans around the room the white carpeting is stained with blood, the walls are stained with blood. The windows look like they have been painted with blood.
Alex Richards: People always whine about the Guardians not being the heroes that they expect. Now Nathan Von Liebert and his mineons in Ward 6 are doing the same. We aren't the heroes that people like Sebastian Knight and Nathan Von Liebert expected? GOOD! FUCK YOUR EXPECTIONS!
Alex runs his finger along the desk, leaving a bloody, red trail across his fingernail.
Alex Richards: Have you seen the way the world is these days? If you're the kind of hero who doesn't want to get their hands dirty.. or even bloody then you're the kind of hero who gets eaten alive by the jackals. Ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Alex laughs
Alex Richards: On this trip I kind of feel like I can.. literally. But that's besides the point. If you ignore evil.. then you ignore options. Just because we're the good guys doesn't mean we shouldn't have access to the same tools the bad guys do now and then.
Alex raises his bloody hands in surrender.
Alex Richards: Now don't get it twisted. I'm not saying be evil.. I'm saying keep an open mind. I mean c'mon.. I own a bar with flying replica dragons, a pan demensional snack machine... and karoake, of course. If anyone is open to new, and strange experiences it's me.
Alex Richards: But make no mistake about it. We are the heroes of this story. We just know who the villians really are. Villians like... Spencer Adams. Yeah Spencer.. I see you. We see you. For what you really are. The original good guy Spencer Adams. Is what he wants you to believe.
Alex snorts.
Alex Richards: Then you see Zombie McMorris, evil incarnate, talk about how much respect he has for Spencer Adams. How he's his boi and a straight up savage. Those are his words. So a man who enjoys torturing people respects Spencer Adam so much he signed over the rights to all his merchadise, huh? What doesn't Spencer Adams want you to know then? This is a man who signed a group of deviants in the Muschache Brothers and let them repeatedly assault his own mother! Then rewarded them by fighting him himself and losing not only the match but giving up a world title shot in the process.. Hmm.. doesn't that seem a little shady to you?
Alex Richards: Like maybe that world title shot was a pay off to them for what they did to Betty Adams? That maybe that was a reward? Allowing your 50 something year old mother to get in the ring... does that make sense to anyone? I mean.. I would let my mother get in the ring.. because that evil bitch deserves to get hurt. But Spencer Adams... he isn't that honest. He runs this company.. he signed that match between Betty and Mama Statche.... he knew the whole time what was really going to happen. Spencer Adams is a sick, dishonest, disloyal fuck. I don't know how you fooled the world for so long.. but you didn't fool me.. you didn't fool the Guardians.
Alex Richards: When you look at it that way it's obvious why Spencer Adams was shaking the hand of Nathan Von Liebert and his allies isn't it? He didn't bring them to the UCI in spite of the fact that NvL is one of the most evil man in the world. He did it BECAUSE of that fact. We've known you for a long time Spencer Adams. We are the originals in the UCI. We are the only people who lasted though generation after generation of wrestlers here in the UCI. We have watched you Spencer and we have learned what you're all about. This is why we challenged you a few weeks ago Spencer! We decided we couldn't let you go unchecked any longer.
Alex Richards: You feared exponsure didn't you Adams? So you did the only thing you could. You brought pure evil into the UCI. You brought pure evil into the UCI and you sicced them on us. How stupid of you Spencer. You don't know what you did do you? You don't know what Nathan Von Liebert is all about.
Alex pauses.. then speaks carefully calm almost.
Alex Richards: But I do. I know that Nathan is basically the equaliant of pouring napalm on your entire roster of wrestlers and striking a match. Because NvL will burn anything, and anyone in his path. He doesn't care who he destroys, or what he destroys. He only cares that he's destroying something. But you don't care about that do you Adams? Because you're not a wrestler so you don't have to deal with the conquences. Luckily for the rest of the roster the Guardians truly are the heroes no one believes we are. The Guardians will destroy the infection you brought into the UCI Spencer. We will be the antidote so to speak.
Alex doesn't even crack a smile, although you would think he would after the inside joke.. but no.
Alex Richards: I'm glad Nathan is back. I really am. Because as long as he's gone we know that that cancer is somewhere in the world. Doing it's damage.. and waiting to come back. Because I knew you would be back someday. I knew you couldn't stay away. After what Bonnie did to you last time I knew you would be licking your wonds, regrouping, waiting for your opportunity. Spencer gifted you this opporunity, this chance to get even with the Guardians, with Bonnie. Spencer fucked up Nathan. You fucked up Nathan. You don't know what you walked into NvL.. this ain't the Guardians you remember from last time. Polar Phantasm had a lot of strengths as leader of the Guardians. But he also had one glaring weakness....
Alex Richards: He was too nice. See.. he would have granted mercy even to someone like you, NvL. That's why Bonnie, and not Polar Phantasm, faced Wentworth Updegraff in that battle for Polar's son. Because Bonnie was willing to do what Polar wouldn't. Make sure Wentworth wouldn't come back to try again. Polar and Bonnie, as a team, the original Guardians tag team, Sebastian Knight and NvL would have had a chance. They would have had a good chance of victory in fact. Because that Guardians team would have been just trying to win the match. Bonnie and I.. we aren't trying to win the match. We are trying to destroy our problem. See, if we end the careers of Liebert and Knight.. our problems are solved.
Alex Richards: I like nice, easy solutions. This is why Ward 6 has real problems with the way we are. Because they wish we weren't. They wish they were facing the old Guardians. But those Guardians.. they didn't think of the price of mercy...
Alex has triggered himself. He thinks back... back to earlier in the week. He is sitting a bench with the rest of the Guardians, at Armand De La Fountaine's funeral. He is wearing a brand new black suit. A classy suit. Alex asked his brother Shaun to purchase him something appropriate for a funeral earlier in the week. Alex may the joker of the Guardians group but he knows how important it is to pay proper respect to Armand's memory. While listening to the speeches Alex thinks back to the night before. To the visitation. To the open coffin. He remembers seeing Armand laying in it. So peaceful, so perfect. But he remembers all the work that had to be done on his body. He remembers that De La Fountaine's death was anything but peaceful. It is Alex's turn to speak. He walks to the pulpet. He looks out into the crowd, the sea of mourners. Then he speaks.
Alex Richards: Armand was a Guardian. Armand De La Fountaine is a Guardian. Death doesn't change that. In fact in a lot of occasions the Guardians have beaten death. Bonnie Blue and myself both of us have died. But we came back from it. Bonnie died fighting alongside Johnny Rabid in the Creeping Death wars. I died being Budda Kai back to be delivered onto death by Andre Holmes. What fools we were. Willing to wisk our lives for people like that. It was a good thing we cheated death because it would not have been a good death, it would not have been an honourable death.
Alex pauses for a minute composing himself.
Alex Richards: Armand didn't die like that. He died a hero. He died protecting his best friend, he died protecting a fellow Guardian Preecha Kamon. Armand gave his life for his best friend.
Alex leaves the podium and places his hand on the shoulder of Preecha Kamon.
Alex Richards: I know you can't hear me. I know right now thanks to Corey Black you can't see me either. But know this.. we are here for you. We are here for the memory of Armand De La Fountaine. He will never be forgotten. And furthermore... the man who killed him, their associates.. we will have sure they never forget Armand. We will make sure his sacrafice was not in vain.
Alex gives Preecha's shoulder a gentle squeeze. Then his focus shifts back to the present day.
Alex Richards: One of these days I'm going to be dead. Bonnie is going to be dead. All of us Guardians are going to be dead. It's a simple fact of life. Everyone dies. But we won't die from lack of killer instinct. We won't die because we were too soft on people like NvL or Sebastian Knight. They say we aren't heroes. I disagree. The most heroic thing anyone can do for the world is to take them out of it. Some people will think we are monsters.. for doing something like that.
Alex looks at the drying blood on the walls... he shrugs.
Alex Richards: But those people never had the misfortune of seeing what Nathan and his brood can truly do first hand. It's been almost three years since I got to lay my hands on you NvL but trust me I've been looking forward to this. I'm been waiting in order to hurt you. I've wanted a piece of you since the day a friend of mine announced his retirement. A former tag team partner of mine named Jeff. Purse.
Alex Richards: Oh I bet you remember him don't you Liebert? You wanted to face him at XIII.. fair game. You lost, by submission no less. Then you wanted a re match at One 2015. Also fair game. But then you decided you needed to play your sick mind games. You needed to prove to Jeff Purse you could get to everyone he love. You cyber stalked his pregnant wife Kari. You showed up in her hospital room when she was unconcious implying you could have ended her right there. See, that's the kind of sick fuck you are Liebert. That's the kind of sick fuck coward you are that is. Your own theme song gives you away. You play screams of women and non wrestlers you have tormented like that's something to be proud of. Yes.. you hurt Kari, you hurt Polar Phantasm's wife Nightmare. That's what you do.. you hurt innocent people in order to gain an unfair advantage over your rivals. |Then when it's time to pay the piper. You tap out, you give up. Because for you... the joy isn't in winning a title, the joy isn't in winning a wrestling match. The joy is in damaging something your rivals loves.
Alex Richards: Well no fucking more Liebert! You know what Jeff did after defeating you at One. He retired. Sure, he's come back a few times since but it never stuck. You know why he retired? Because he knew that no matter how often he defeated you... like damn near every single time! You would always come back, always come after someone he loved. So he retired. Because Kari and his child meant more to him then wrestling did. Smart choice. But not a choice he should have had to make. Jeff is a friend of mine. I never forget my friends. Or the enemies of my friends. I wasn't in the WCF at the time, but I was watching.
Alex Richards: You were taken out of a stretcher at the end of the match. You were taken to the hospital. You were lucky. You should have been taken to the morgue. But Jeff is truly a nice guy. He doesn't have the heart to truly hurt someone. Even someone as evil as Nathan. Neither did Polar. See a pattern? You pick on people who will only go so far in extracting their revenge.
Alex Richards: Bonnie and I... we don't have those limits. We have seen too much. We have seen too many good people get hurt. Too many good people die. Like Armand De La Fountaine. Someone has to die. Someone always has to die. So when given a choice. Why should it be me or Bonnie? Why should it be a Guardian? NvL, my conscience would be completely clear in ending you. Because I plan on ending your cycle of misery. I'll rip the wheels off of it and beat you to death with the frame if I have to. You created Ward 6.. you lead them to war with the Guardians. You led your group to complete and utter destruction. Because you don't have a clue what you walked into. We have faced people like you before. We have defeated people like you before. You aren't used to facing people like us. You aren't used to facing the sort of people you would use your own devious, dirty, destructive tactics against you. You step into Civil War you will be stepping into the same Hell you have created for so many people so many times before. I can't think of anyone more deserving.
Alex Richards: And as for you Sebastian Knight.. I really have no words for you. Because you are simply a follower. You have never truly accomplished anything without Leibert to guide you. You even call yourself the Mimic.. claiming to turn your opponent's best against them. Only one problem. You can't do what I do. You can't do this can you?
Alex thinks for a minute.. then draws upon his metahuman powers disappearing into thin air. His voice however can still be heard.
Alex Richards: You think NvL is the only scary monster? We are the avenging angels come to destroy you. You can't mimic Alex Richards. No one can. I'm not like anyone else. It's not just a tag line it's the truth. I'm interested in seeing what you can do. When we destroy Liebert.. when we set you free... what will you do with yourself? Don't disappoint us Sebastian.. or else you might be next.
The door opens.. Sarah Forest, our hipster from last week screams looking around the blood in his ofice. He turns to run but invisible hands toss him right into the middle of the bloody carpet. Alex reappears.
Alex Richards: Man.. I always used to think I had to pour alcohol on myself to disappear. But I don't. This Blue Velvet really does open up your mind. They should have called it Black Velvet though. Like the song. You know.. I could really go for that song. You got it?
Alex begins rifling through the record collection until he finds the classic tune. He rubs blood on the record saying it will improve the sound. He puts it on. The blood doesn't improve the sound. Sarah has finally found his voice and croaks out.
Sarah Forest: What did you do? Who did you kill?
Alex laughs.
Alex Richards: I didn't kill anyone. Well..
Alex points to the far corner of the room where a pig carcass lays.
Alex Richards: I killed that pig.
Sarah Forest: .......
Alex Richards: You should be outraged, being vegan and all shouldn't you?
Sarah Forest: Yeah...
Sarah is clearly in shock.
Alex Richards: So Blue Velvet.. it's a trip. There was a warning. That it would change you. That it would control you. But I didn't worry about that. Drugs don't control me. I control drugs. Shit every morning I wake up with a pot of coffee, a bottle of Baileys and a handful of mystery pills. That's my idea of breakfast. And it didn't harm me. It helped me. It opened up my mind. See Sarah... or should I call you Jared.
Sarah Forest: How do you know my
Alex Richards: Your name.. that isn't all I know about you. You lied to me last week Jared. You lied about Rudd Enterprises. You lied about what you do.. and what you know. You underestimated me Jared. So did 15. So did NvL and Sebastian Knight...
Alex lays his hand on the hipster's shoulder.
Alex Richards: You're going to tell me everything. And I'll decide whether you're deserving or mercy. Or destruction like Ward 6..
The camera fades to a blood red... The scream Jared let otu when he opened the room is replayed as a wink, a nod, and a message to NvL
The camera pans around the room the white carpeting is stained with blood, the walls are stained with blood. The windows look like they have been painted with blood.
Alex Richards: People always whine about the Guardians not being the heroes that they expect. Now Nathan Von Liebert and his mineons in Ward 6 are doing the same. We aren't the heroes that people like Sebastian Knight and Nathan Von Liebert expected? GOOD! FUCK YOUR EXPECTIONS!
Alex runs his finger along the desk, leaving a bloody, red trail across his fingernail.
Alex Richards: Have you seen the way the world is these days? If you're the kind of hero who doesn't want to get their hands dirty.. or even bloody then you're the kind of hero who gets eaten alive by the jackals. Ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Alex laughs
Alex Richards: On this trip I kind of feel like I can.. literally. But that's besides the point. If you ignore evil.. then you ignore options. Just because we're the good guys doesn't mean we shouldn't have access to the same tools the bad guys do now and then.
Alex raises his bloody hands in surrender.
Alex Richards: Now don't get it twisted. I'm not saying be evil.. I'm saying keep an open mind. I mean c'mon.. I own a bar with flying replica dragons, a pan demensional snack machine... and karoake, of course. If anyone is open to new, and strange experiences it's me.
Alex Richards: But make no mistake about it. We are the heroes of this story. We just know who the villians really are. Villians like... Spencer Adams. Yeah Spencer.. I see you. We see you. For what you really are. The original good guy Spencer Adams. Is what he wants you to believe.
Alex snorts.
Alex Richards: Then you see Zombie McMorris, evil incarnate, talk about how much respect he has for Spencer Adams. How he's his boi and a straight up savage. Those are his words. So a man who enjoys torturing people respects Spencer Adam so much he signed over the rights to all his merchadise, huh? What doesn't Spencer Adams want you to know then? This is a man who signed a group of deviants in the Muschache Brothers and let them repeatedly assault his own mother! Then rewarded them by fighting him himself and losing not only the match but giving up a world title shot in the process.. Hmm.. doesn't that seem a little shady to you?
Alex Richards: Like maybe that world title shot was a pay off to them for what they did to Betty Adams? That maybe that was a reward? Allowing your 50 something year old mother to get in the ring... does that make sense to anyone? I mean.. I would let my mother get in the ring.. because that evil bitch deserves to get hurt. But Spencer Adams... he isn't that honest. He runs this company.. he signed that match between Betty and Mama Statche.... he knew the whole time what was really going to happen. Spencer Adams is a sick, dishonest, disloyal fuck. I don't know how you fooled the world for so long.. but you didn't fool me.. you didn't fool the Guardians.
Alex Richards: When you look at it that way it's obvious why Spencer Adams was shaking the hand of Nathan Von Liebert and his allies isn't it? He didn't bring them to the UCI in spite of the fact that NvL is one of the most evil man in the world. He did it BECAUSE of that fact. We've known you for a long time Spencer Adams. We are the originals in the UCI. We are the only people who lasted though generation after generation of wrestlers here in the UCI. We have watched you Spencer and we have learned what you're all about. This is why we challenged you a few weeks ago Spencer! We decided we couldn't let you go unchecked any longer.
Alex Richards: You feared exponsure didn't you Adams? So you did the only thing you could. You brought pure evil into the UCI. You brought pure evil into the UCI and you sicced them on us. How stupid of you Spencer. You don't know what you did do you? You don't know what Nathan Von Liebert is all about.
Alex pauses.. then speaks carefully calm almost.
Alex Richards: But I do. I know that Nathan is basically the equaliant of pouring napalm on your entire roster of wrestlers and striking a match. Because NvL will burn anything, and anyone in his path. He doesn't care who he destroys, or what he destroys. He only cares that he's destroying something. But you don't care about that do you Adams? Because you're not a wrestler so you don't have to deal with the conquences. Luckily for the rest of the roster the Guardians truly are the heroes no one believes we are. The Guardians will destroy the infection you brought into the UCI Spencer. We will be the antidote so to speak.
Alex doesn't even crack a smile, although you would think he would after the inside joke.. but no.
Alex Richards: I'm glad Nathan is back. I really am. Because as long as he's gone we know that that cancer is somewhere in the world. Doing it's damage.. and waiting to come back. Because I knew you would be back someday. I knew you couldn't stay away. After what Bonnie did to you last time I knew you would be licking your wonds, regrouping, waiting for your opportunity. Spencer gifted you this opporunity, this chance to get even with the Guardians, with Bonnie. Spencer fucked up Nathan. You fucked up Nathan. You don't know what you walked into NvL.. this ain't the Guardians you remember from last time. Polar Phantasm had a lot of strengths as leader of the Guardians. But he also had one glaring weakness....
Alex Richards: He was too nice. See.. he would have granted mercy even to someone like you, NvL. That's why Bonnie, and not Polar Phantasm, faced Wentworth Updegraff in that battle for Polar's son. Because Bonnie was willing to do what Polar wouldn't. Make sure Wentworth wouldn't come back to try again. Polar and Bonnie, as a team, the original Guardians tag team, Sebastian Knight and NvL would have had a chance. They would have had a good chance of victory in fact. Because that Guardians team would have been just trying to win the match. Bonnie and I.. we aren't trying to win the match. We are trying to destroy our problem. See, if we end the careers of Liebert and Knight.. our problems are solved.
Alex Richards: I like nice, easy solutions. This is why Ward 6 has real problems with the way we are. Because they wish we weren't. They wish they were facing the old Guardians. But those Guardians.. they didn't think of the price of mercy...
Alex has triggered himself. He thinks back... back to earlier in the week. He is sitting a bench with the rest of the Guardians, at Armand De La Fountaine's funeral. He is wearing a brand new black suit. A classy suit. Alex asked his brother Shaun to purchase him something appropriate for a funeral earlier in the week. Alex may the joker of the Guardians group but he knows how important it is to pay proper respect to Armand's memory. While listening to the speeches Alex thinks back to the night before. To the visitation. To the open coffin. He remembers seeing Armand laying in it. So peaceful, so perfect. But he remembers all the work that had to be done on his body. He remembers that De La Fountaine's death was anything but peaceful. It is Alex's turn to speak. He walks to the pulpet. He looks out into the crowd, the sea of mourners. Then he speaks.
Alex Richards: Armand was a Guardian. Armand De La Fountaine is a Guardian. Death doesn't change that. In fact in a lot of occasions the Guardians have beaten death. Bonnie Blue and myself both of us have died. But we came back from it. Bonnie died fighting alongside Johnny Rabid in the Creeping Death wars. I died being Budda Kai back to be delivered onto death by Andre Holmes. What fools we were. Willing to wisk our lives for people like that. It was a good thing we cheated death because it would not have been a good death, it would not have been an honourable death.
Alex pauses for a minute composing himself.
Alex Richards: Armand didn't die like that. He died a hero. He died protecting his best friend, he died protecting a fellow Guardian Preecha Kamon. Armand gave his life for his best friend.
Alex leaves the podium and places his hand on the shoulder of Preecha Kamon.
Alex Richards: I know you can't hear me. I know right now thanks to Corey Black you can't see me either. But know this.. we are here for you. We are here for the memory of Armand De La Fountaine. He will never be forgotten. And furthermore... the man who killed him, their associates.. we will have sure they never forget Armand. We will make sure his sacrafice was not in vain.
Alex gives Preecha's shoulder a gentle squeeze. Then his focus shifts back to the present day.
Alex Richards: One of these days I'm going to be dead. Bonnie is going to be dead. All of us Guardians are going to be dead. It's a simple fact of life. Everyone dies. But we won't die from lack of killer instinct. We won't die because we were too soft on people like NvL or Sebastian Knight. They say we aren't heroes. I disagree. The most heroic thing anyone can do for the world is to take them out of it. Some people will think we are monsters.. for doing something like that.
Alex looks at the drying blood on the walls... he shrugs.
Alex Richards: But those people never had the misfortune of seeing what Nathan and his brood can truly do first hand. It's been almost three years since I got to lay my hands on you NvL but trust me I've been looking forward to this. I'm been waiting in order to hurt you. I've wanted a piece of you since the day a friend of mine announced his retirement. A former tag team partner of mine named Jeff. Purse.
Alex Richards: Oh I bet you remember him don't you Liebert? You wanted to face him at XIII.. fair game. You lost, by submission no less. Then you wanted a re match at One 2015. Also fair game. But then you decided you needed to play your sick mind games. You needed to prove to Jeff Purse you could get to everyone he love. You cyber stalked his pregnant wife Kari. You showed up in her hospital room when she was unconcious implying you could have ended her right there. See, that's the kind of sick fuck you are Liebert. That's the kind of sick fuck coward you are that is. Your own theme song gives you away. You play screams of women and non wrestlers you have tormented like that's something to be proud of. Yes.. you hurt Kari, you hurt Polar Phantasm's wife Nightmare. That's what you do.. you hurt innocent people in order to gain an unfair advantage over your rivals. |Then when it's time to pay the piper. You tap out, you give up. Because for you... the joy isn't in winning a title, the joy isn't in winning a wrestling match. The joy is in damaging something your rivals loves.
Alex Richards: Well no fucking more Liebert! You know what Jeff did after defeating you at One. He retired. Sure, he's come back a few times since but it never stuck. You know why he retired? Because he knew that no matter how often he defeated you... like damn near every single time! You would always come back, always come after someone he loved. So he retired. Because Kari and his child meant more to him then wrestling did. Smart choice. But not a choice he should have had to make. Jeff is a friend of mine. I never forget my friends. Or the enemies of my friends. I wasn't in the WCF at the time, but I was watching.
Alex Richards: You were taken out of a stretcher at the end of the match. You were taken to the hospital. You were lucky. You should have been taken to the morgue. But Jeff is truly a nice guy. He doesn't have the heart to truly hurt someone. Even someone as evil as Nathan. Neither did Polar. See a pattern? You pick on people who will only go so far in extracting their revenge.
Alex Richards: Bonnie and I... we don't have those limits. We have seen too much. We have seen too many good people get hurt. Too many good people die. Like Armand De La Fountaine. Someone has to die. Someone always has to die. So when given a choice. Why should it be me or Bonnie? Why should it be a Guardian? NvL, my conscience would be completely clear in ending you. Because I plan on ending your cycle of misery. I'll rip the wheels off of it and beat you to death with the frame if I have to. You created Ward 6.. you lead them to war with the Guardians. You led your group to complete and utter destruction. Because you don't have a clue what you walked into. We have faced people like you before. We have defeated people like you before. You aren't used to facing people like us. You aren't used to facing the sort of people you would use your own devious, dirty, destructive tactics against you. You step into Civil War you will be stepping into the same Hell you have created for so many people so many times before. I can't think of anyone more deserving.
Alex Richards: And as for you Sebastian Knight.. I really have no words for you. Because you are simply a follower. You have never truly accomplished anything without Leibert to guide you. You even call yourself the Mimic.. claiming to turn your opponent's best against them. Only one problem. You can't do what I do. You can't do this can you?
Alex thinks for a minute.. then draws upon his metahuman powers disappearing into thin air. His voice however can still be heard.
Alex Richards: You think NvL is the only scary monster? We are the avenging angels come to destroy you. You can't mimic Alex Richards. No one can. I'm not like anyone else. It's not just a tag line it's the truth. I'm interested in seeing what you can do. When we destroy Liebert.. when we set you free... what will you do with yourself? Don't disappoint us Sebastian.. or else you might be next.
The door opens.. Sarah Forest, our hipster from last week screams looking around the blood in his ofice. He turns to run but invisible hands toss him right into the middle of the bloody carpet. Alex reappears.
Alex Richards: Man.. I always used to think I had to pour alcohol on myself to disappear. But I don't. This Blue Velvet really does open up your mind. They should have called it Black Velvet though. Like the song. You know.. I could really go for that song. You got it?
Alex begins rifling through the record collection until he finds the classic tune. He rubs blood on the record saying it will improve the sound. He puts it on. The blood doesn't improve the sound. Sarah has finally found his voice and croaks out.
Sarah Forest: What did you do? Who did you kill?
Alex laughs.
Alex Richards: I didn't kill anyone. Well..
Alex points to the far corner of the room where a pig carcass lays.
Alex Richards: I killed that pig.
Sarah Forest: .......
Alex Richards: You should be outraged, being vegan and all shouldn't you?
Sarah Forest: Yeah...
Sarah is clearly in shock.
Alex Richards: So Blue Velvet.. it's a trip. There was a warning. That it would change you. That it would control you. But I didn't worry about that. Drugs don't control me. I control drugs. Shit every morning I wake up with a pot of coffee, a bottle of Baileys and a handful of mystery pills. That's my idea of breakfast. And it didn't harm me. It helped me. It opened up my mind. See Sarah... or should I call you Jared.
Sarah Forest: How do you know my
Alex Richards: Your name.. that isn't all I know about you. You lied to me last week Jared. You lied about Rudd Enterprises. You lied about what you do.. and what you know. You underestimated me Jared. So did 15. So did NvL and Sebastian Knight...
Alex lays his hand on the hipster's shoulder.
Alex Richards: You're going to tell me everything. And I'll decide whether you're deserving or mercy. Or destruction like Ward 6..
The camera fades to a blood red... The scream Jared let otu when he opened the room is replayed as a wink, a nod, and a message to NvL