Captain Jack

[Ronin]

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: Mr. Spade, I have a terrible, terrible confession to make. That story I told you yesterday was just a story.

Sam Spade: Oh, that....well, we, we didn't exactly believe your story, Miss--uh, what is your name? Wonderly or Leblanc?

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: It's O'Shaughnessy. Brigid O'Shaughnessy.

Sam Spade: We didn't exactly believe your story, Miss O'Shaughnessy. We believed your two hundred dollars.

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: You mean that--

Sam Spade: I mean, you paid us more than if you'd been telling us the truth, and enough more to make it all right.

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I'd like to introduce one of my childhood role models.

One, unabashedly, who showed me how to rise from B-movie limbo to full-scale honorable scallawag.

"Never trust an honest man" ~ Steve Schlicht (1980)

You want justice? I live to serve.

[livius drusus]

I live to serve.

Oh well in that case, when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.

[Ronin]

I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

[livius drusus]

I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.

[Ronin]

You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.

[livius drusus]

You always have a very smooth explanation.

[Ronin]

What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

I hope you're not letting yourself be influenced by the guns these pocket edition desperados are waving around, because I've practiced taking guns from these boys before so we'll have no trouble there.