[Tries to sneak up the stairs, but drops her keys]
V?
Hi.
Where have you been?
Uh...I was at work.
All night?
I don't know, maybe. What day is it?
Oh don't be an ass.
Your boss called.
You forgot to lock up the bookstore. Again. And you didn't show up for your morning shift.
He said not to bother showing up again. I think he meant it.
Damnit, I--
Oh and you forgot to meet up with Mom and Dad last night.
Shit...dinner.
It got Dad in a state and you of all people know that's the last thing he needs.
Okay, I know. I know. Okay? I'll call them, I just, I need a second.
Seriously?
You know what? Forget it. I'll just call them for you. I'm going upstairs to get something to eat. You have your keys, right?
Yes.
What the--
Oh, my god!
You know, usually when someone "locks up shop", they actually lock the doors.
What's up?
Ah, it's--
It's a long story.
Well it's your lucky day. I have the whole day off.
Why aren't you teaching?
Lice.
What? Gross.
No, no not me. The students. One of them got lice and they're treating it like the plague.
Fine by me!
I thought I'd swing by anyway.
See if you're alive.
Hello?
[From behind the door] Meow.
Wait, Andrew?
Sup.
You can unlock doors?
Yes V, I can unlock doors that are already unlocked. That's a magic power that we all have.
Well what if somebody sees you? I thought one of Benson's big rules was to keep everything a secret.
Wait, can anyone see you?
Well I'm dead, not a ghost, V.
And people don't know me around here so it's cool.
This is, uh-- yeah this is a nice place. You uh, you live here?
Yeah, sort of. My sister has an apartment upstairs. I'm in between places.
Oh...
In more way's than one. But my friend runs a tattoo shop, so I kind of have a run of the place.
Nice. Well, listen. I'm glad you got to decompress a bit. But, fate don't wait.
And each assignment starts off with a delivery from head office, and, drum-roll, that's a bad drum-roll.
That's my drum-roll, drum-roll please! Voila!
This your laptop?
Yes...
[he presses a button and the camera chimes on] Hey guys! Handed V Morgan her first assignment. And it is...
11:35pm. So, adios muchachos!
Woah woah woah woah woah woah. They hacked my laptop when I was up there? ...Down there?
Well, no no no no, it's not hacking, it's archiving, really. And if you think about it, it's pretty amazing, if you think
that you can send a signal back up there. Or down there. It's really- really whatever you prefer.
But don't worry, listen, you can turn it on [Camera chimes on] like that, Hello! Or you can turn it off
[Camera chimes off] like that. It's not like anyone is watching anyways, it's just a feed back to archives.
Which you're supposed to do every day, but you know-- I dont. Really.
And how am I supposed to know what to do every day? It's not like I got a handbook or anything
Oh, yes, do not even get me started about the handbook. Okay basically when head office has an
assignment for a Fixer, Jenna delivers it, okay? Now, it comes in like a little trinket or token or something like that
Then we find the person that it connects to, okay, and we figure out what the connection is that needs to be made
and we make it.
And when the assignment is done, Jenna takes the token or trinket back to storage.
So?
Go ahead, open it.
Rip it open, c'mon!
C'mon!!
Okay.
[whispers] What's in there?
It's a coin?
Nah, it's a penny.
That mean anything to you?
That's my sister's name
Well there you go then.
What? She's my assignment??
Hang on.
Oh, well, that is not good.
It's uh, it's flattened. Flattened like a, like a train ran over it
What? Wait, what the hell does that mean?!
This is about my sister's life?
Well um.
[V turns the camera back on] I reject this god damn assignment! Take me to The Sixth Floor now. Get up.
Okay!
Go!
Okay I'm going!
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