2nd - Video

[circumsutus]

[The camera focuses on five little patchwork mice in a cage. It remains focused on them as Stein tries to pick up a little extra cash.]

Pet mice for sale to a good home. Friendly, healthy, and neutered. Five dollars each.

Comments

voice.

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They certainly weren't born looking like that.

voice.

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So what did you do to make them look...like they do now...?

voice.

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Well, I took them apart, and then I put them back together. Each mouse has parts from at least one of the others.

voice. 1/2

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Wh--

voice. 2/2

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Huuuuh?! Is that really okay to do?!

voice.

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They seem to be doing well. [What are morals?]

voice.

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'Doing well'?! How are they even still alive?!

[Science how does it work.]

voice.

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[WHO EVEN KNOWS]

It's not that hard once you've practiced as much as I have.

voice.

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H-how many have you practiced with...?!

voice.

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Oh, several hundred, at least. Not here of course, but over the course of a lifetime.

voice.

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So it's that sort of hobby...

[Spoken mostly to himself.]

You're sure they aren't going to die right away?

Re: voice.

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[At least you aren't running away or telling him to stop.]

I've given them a week of recovery time, and they're fine. I doubt they'll die right away.

voice.

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[Sadly, two years here and another 24 in the world he came from will help you accept a lot of strange, immoral things...

Plus they're cute. That helps.]

And you haven't seen any other...ah, strange side effects or anything from doing this?

voice.

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Not particularity. It's just basic organ transplants.

voice.

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[Modern science is so weird. But okay, he'll bite.]

All right. Where can I pick one up?

voice.

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Where's easiest for you?

voice.

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Anywhere is fine. I'm in sector four until five o'clock.

voice.

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I can meet you over there. Do you want one or two?

voice.

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Just one. Do you know where the Funtom bakery is?

voice.

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Can't say I do.

voice.

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[Insert an address in sector four here! It's one of the busier streets fairly close to the baseball diamond.]

voice.

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You'll need a cage, unless you want to take it home in your pocket.

[And video back to the cage.]

Any particular one you want?

voice.

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I have something that will work.

[Either a bowl with a strainer on top of a cardboard box with holes in it. One or the other.]

Ah...whichever is laziest.

voice. --> action?

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I'll be right over.

[And he picks out a mouse and puts her in his pocket.]

action!

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[There should definitely be someone in the store who can point him towards the area where Gil is doing something super manly like decorating cupcakes or putting sprinkles on cookies. Totally manly.

Yep.]