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[hostage]

[No video. Getting to be a habit with him these days, but really... who wants to see him looking like he does right now? Thank him later. If he sounded bad before, he sounds much worse now. The way someone would sound when they've spent a week vomiting. That's why he keeps the message relatively short and sweet.]

I tested the, um... the verstatsi. The U.E.'s drug.

In case the obvious needed stating: don't try it.

Full report coming once I can get my ass outta bed, but I can tell you it's about half-opiate, half-synthetic. The comedown's a total bitch and I ain't just talking like regular use. I mean like one shot and you're gonna need another fix in a few hours unless you like spending the next few days worshiping the porcelain god. Seriously, I'm a professional and this stuff... is bad. I don't think we got a lotta samples around here but take my word for it and don't mess around with it. I done H. This is worse than H. Way worse.

So that's your little P.S.A. and don't roll your eyes 'cause this ain't some D.A.R.E. bullshit, yo. I'm serious.

Comments

[hostage]

Yeah.

[kneecaptain]

I don't really like it.

[ He's devolved into Captain Obvious. ]

[hostage]

Gonna, uh, go out on a limb here and say that's probably how most everybody feels about this shit. Sooner we take down the U.E., sooner it stops happening.

[kneecaptain]

No one's got a plan for that, 'cept the Initiative.

[hostage]

And we work for the Initiative, so that's lucky.

[kneecaptain]

Yeah? Is that working out for you so far?

Did they get you that drug?

[hostage]

A Transport gave it to me. I asked for it.

[kneecaptain]

That's what I thought.

[hostage]

So I could work on a cure.

[He felt like that needed clarification.]

[kneecaptain]

I'm real bad at lectures.

My name's Bucky Barnes. I know it says, but… [ he just kind of drifts off there. ]

[hostage]

Jesse Pinkman. And I'm real bad at listening to lectures.

[kneecaptain]

Well. That's an understanding.

You think you'll be able to find a cure?

[hostage]

On paper, I'm already halfway there. But if I can't find the right precursors to synthesize it... I dunno. I guess we'll have to find a way to get 'em.

[kneecaptain]

You figure the Initiative would help you with that?

[hostage]

They usually do.

[kneecaptain]

I think they try.