that's kingsley. old bastard hears us, i'm sure. he just doesn't want to bother answering so he makes us think he can't talk. i know. i tried it on my mother for two months once before she fished out my tongue. literally. you're the cop killer, right? tv. helps numb any active mind. rudy mackenzie. that's too bad. i don't believe in disposable language either -- you know, the small talk, the little talk. chit. chat. useless. the game's something else though. think about it: what can we trade with each other in the air between us? this. is our court. i'm ready to throw the ball. come on. i tried to kill my wife. i tried something like 30 times. there is, as starks rightly figures, no suitable response to that. she's bigger than me, and she's stronger than me. and i never planned on doing it. it was always in the heat of the moment. i didn't beat her or anything. hell, she beat me. but when we'd start fighting, i'd go for the knife. then she kept threatening to have me put away, and she finally did. or just plain stupid. you'd think by the twentieth time, i'd have found an alternative method. maybe a more effective one, if you know what i mean. it's a hard one for me, dr. lorenson. the world around me, it's shrinking. there's not even room for light to make its way in. da-da-bum! da- da-bum! i feel like the horseman of doom is coming for me, doc. only today, he's not carrying flowers. what? it's better than fine. of course you can, doc. william, it was an absolute pleasure. thanks for playing. hey. when they talk you out to the woods tonight and invite the wolves, dance with them. they don't eat you when there's music playing. when they take you out to the woods tonight and invite the wolves, dance with them. they don't eat you when there's music playing. i wasn't talking about anything. i know you need one when it's really cold. mortality's actually a great thing to be familiar with. it means you're sane on some level. how do you know? oh no, you're pretty young. your body'll be able to handle a lot more of it than you think. it's gonna be sticky. 'cause lorenson's got her claws in it now. when she started getting suspicious about me was when they stopped using it on me. women! you could still always give becker an itch. 'course you might get killed when he goes to scratch it, but seems to me you're saying that's about to happen anyway. just be careful not to walk yourself right into something. hey, i brought you some smokes. geez, how's that for a fucking "thank you"? she left me, i tried to kill her, i tried to kill myself. she was mean, i was weak, i was cruel so she left, i didn't plan it, didn't see it. fine! not this luckless little mammal's. what difference is it to them? you believe what you want to believe. one version is easier than another so you make it your own. i'll tell you this though. however nuts i am, i wasn't nuts enough not to know how wrong it was to put a human being in something like that. what if we are? there're crazier things than thinking up fictions for yourself. everyone does it, don't they? even becker. that roller coaster car pops more pills than all of ward 3. i've been here for 11 years. it's my neighborhood. 'course i'm sure. he's as drugged up as the rest of us. i guess he has to be to put up with all this.