Chapter 6 – Page 017
Go on, Sam. Elaborate. Ask if they’re related. Have your colleague of several years and one of these amorphous squiggles stand next to each other and see if you can tell the difference, you insular wonderbread Home Counties commuter who probably thinks salt is a spice…
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Panel 1:
Des takes the floor, but Lewis is sceptical.
DES: These things manifest according to social media trends, right? If we influence these trends, maybe we can set the terms of the next encounter.
LEWIS: Des, we’re cops, people do the opposite of what we tell them out of spite.
SAM: No, she’s onto something. You probably have an inside track into these conversations, don’t you, Solomon?
Panel 2:
Des crosses her arms at Sam’s insinuations.
DES: No? Why would I?
SAM: Well, because you’re…
SAM: …and they’re…
SAM: …there’s…no way out of this cul-de-sac for me, is there?
DES: Guv, my extended family already calls me an Uncle Ruckus for throwing my lot in with the rozzers. This discussion ain’t helping my case.
Panel 3:
Sam turns to Lewis, suitably chided. Lewis enjoys the spotlight.
SAM: Alright, alright, don’t go writing letters to Baroness Lawrence, just throwing ideas out.
SAM: Russell, don’t suppose you have any connections to these trendy zoomers with their blue hair and pronouns you can exploit?
LEWIS: As gregarious a personality as I possess, regrettably no.
LEWIS: I got a better idea: reverse psychology.
Panel 4:
Lewis lays the plan onto the rest of Pandora.
LEWIS: We issue a press release. “Pandora will respond forcefully to any threats against historical statues in Whitehall.”
DES: Has there…been…any threats against historical statues in Whitehall?
Panel 5:
Closeup of Lewis. There’s an evil glint in his eye.
LEWIS: No…
LEWIS: …but it’ll set the cat among the pigeons, won't it?
Panel 6:
Des is a little alarmed at the turn this meeting is taking, but is overruled.
DES: …guv, we need to think really hard before we decide if we wanna go down this road-
SAM: Do it.
DES: …
pride_load: see? theyre tearing down our past to build their communist future, just like orwell said
Des takes the floor, but Lewis is sceptical.
DES: These things manifest according to social media trends, right? If we influence these trends, maybe we can set the terms of the next encounter.
LEWIS: Des, we’re cops, people do the opposite of what we tell them out of spite.
SAM: No, she’s onto something. You probably have an inside track into these conversations, don’t you, Solomon?
Panel 2:
Des crosses her arms at Sam’s insinuations.
DES: No? Why would I?
SAM: Well, because you’re…
SAM: …and they’re…
SAM: …there’s…no way out of this cul-de-sac for me, is there?
DES: Guv, my extended family already calls me an Uncle Ruckus for throwing my lot in with the rozzers. This discussion ain’t helping my case.
Panel 3:
Sam turns to Lewis, suitably chided. Lewis enjoys the spotlight.
SAM: Alright, alright, don’t go writing letters to Baroness Lawrence, just throwing ideas out.
SAM: Russell, don’t suppose you have any connections to these trendy zoomers with their blue hair and pronouns you can exploit?
LEWIS: As gregarious a personality as I possess, regrettably no.
LEWIS: I got a better idea: reverse psychology.
Panel 4:
Lewis lays the plan onto the rest of Pandora.
LEWIS: We issue a press release. “Pandora will respond forcefully to any threats against historical statues in Whitehall.”
DES: Has there…been…any threats against historical statues in Whitehall?
Panel 5:
Closeup of Lewis. There’s an evil glint in his eye.
LEWIS: No…
LEWIS: …but it’ll set the cat among the pigeons, won't it?
Panel 6:
Des is a little alarmed at the turn this meeting is taking, but is overruled.
DES: …guv, we need to think really hard before we decide if we wanna go down this road-
SAM: Do it.
DES: …
pride_load: see? theyre tearing down our past to build their communist future, just like orwell said