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this episode contains depictions of dismemberment

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i'm about to stop asking so nicely

1:57

give me your hand michael

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oh

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i gonna do it

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michael

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this isn't the big

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scary thing that you've talked yourself

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into thinking it is

2:10

the little snip

2:11

when it's over i'll turn it all back

2:14

and it'll be like it never happened even better

2:16

it will have never happened your hand

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will be seen you , ask

2:21

mike if you want any discomfort is merely

2:23

temporary temporary stand

2:26

the you're scared but it'll get easier

2:28

after a few experiments i think

2:31

mike settled in quite well in my

2:33

opinion had a pair i've

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given you my hand top veterans

2:37

this goes beyond what i was expecting

2:41

you shouldn't make promises

2:43

that you don't intend to keep you

2:45

told me that you would cooperate and in return

2:48

i agreed to help out your

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friends with that problem have

2:53

you done that yet have you found

2:55

mustard seed we are working on

2:57

it around the clock we have allocated

2:59

as many resources as we can practically

3:01

afford turns out that this mustard

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seed person is extremely clever

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you a ride to come to us for help i don't think

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there's another facility that is capable of hunting

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someone like this down not even

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over we are making good

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on ideal but it will take time

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i'm for you to do the same the

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, ain't giving you my hand and that fall

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ah kate

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gotta be some other way free all the figure the sort

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itself out

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would you prefer that i do this to might instead

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i thought you was a big old tough guy

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protecting your flock through hell or

3:35

high water even if it means bleeding

3:38

for him now and then pleased with

3:40

that might

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, let me do it he's

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a good mind we worked

3:47

very hard to build relationships

3:49

broke down a lot of wolves to get into where

3:51

he is now

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then

3:54

do you want me to do it

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who him no i don't

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want you to do it to me

3:59

don't don't or

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hurt him don't her mikey

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your i

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volunteered to compare to protect

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him so where

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mean hurt me instead i'll do it

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it's decided than thank you

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for your cooperation as i mentioned

4:18

previously i am not going to hurt you

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i am not going to allow this

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to stay the way that things happened

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we've done these sorts of experiments dozens

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of times hundreds at this point thera

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fail safes and even the fail safes have

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failsafe i , say with

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one hundred percent confidence that

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you are going to be all right

4:38

so give me your

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you're wrong though it is gonna hurt

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oh my what a terrible scott that

4:53

the one that you got from our field team bunch

4:56

of flintshire boots ruff me up and stab

4:58

clean through it in my own cabin know

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for nothing for nothing even have with a

5:03

was looking for some sort a key

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they went after a bunch of my friends to mall

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for something none of us had

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i am sorry about that

5:13

i know that i've mentioned it to one of you before

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but that was not a mission i was involved

5:17

i never have allowed to specially

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since you didn't have anything useful to provide us

5:22

there was nothing about that mission that required

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violence this dog

5:27

like that no , you're so

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standoffish with us us

5:32

your squeaky clean outside of that ain't yeah

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tell that all the mikey that you got locked

5:37

up in here you

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know we're looking into all sorts of medical

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uses for this technology someone

5:44

, pitched a project to aid with recovery

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from injuries and surgeries and minimising

5:48

scars and the lights is that something

5:51

that you would be interested in not

5:53

a wanna be your guinea pig of that's what you're

5:55

saying i'm only here as part

5:57

of the deal and are already messing

5:59

with messing

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as it is

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it would count toward your debt to me

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and it would heal your hand there

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, be no pay not even temporary pay

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like today's experiment you

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wouldn't have to think about that attack every

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time you look at your wedding ring strange

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mike told me that he wasn't married to edgar

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mikey ain't married edgar married

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am we don't get married for years

6:23

after the mikey you got don't

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know why you can keep that street right

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of course and it's mikey

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mike michael and

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mighty it

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likely helps you keep track of who's who to you

6:40

seem rather invested in doing that

6:43

we get this over with already i

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enjoy in the chit chat wait non you

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to cut my damn pinkie finger off if

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we're gonna do it then let's get the show

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on the road already

6:54

, to do it so let's do it perhaps

6:57

a lately i would warn you about

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what this is going to feel like but you flight woebegone

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you're much more of an authority on the

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subject and i am i've never so much to

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do it already ties are

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rights on the count of three one

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two

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later

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legs michael stop stop moving

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i know this we , to get

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you into the other room to combine it with the other michael

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the quicker we do that the quicker the pain stops nominees

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is just on the other side of adult

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what the fuck did

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you do to him he cut my god

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damn finger complexity places as

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soon as you're both on your marks i can consolidate

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the two of you quickly now quickly months

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yes i'm headed of controlling don't move

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will just take a second

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what's gonna happen to us with you

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be in last thing

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or about find about i'm

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gonna be sick just hold on a second

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longer fargo toughen up were

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doing this for michael did

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, know about me me

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when did he it a raiders hard

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or know maybe when we were sleep and

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now don't like that one bit guess

8:15

bit don't matter anymore he's put in his back

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together again initiating consolidation

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and three to iran

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good

8:25

the grew to be a rousing success

8:28

from here it appears that you are

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safe and sound consolidated into wrong

8:32

body can you tell me how you feel

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something's

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wrong mentally

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or physically oh hold on i'm

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heading back to the expense

8:53

so what appears to be the problem i can see

8:55

for yourself in a

8:57

, who does

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it hurt when i do this and

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don't hurt and came feel it at all

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can you move it been trying to move

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with this whole time won't budge everything

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else feels normal you have all of your faculties

9:13

you feel like to say michael that you are this morning no

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brain fog or lhasa capacity or anything now

9:18

i feel fine everything feels

9:20

way it usually does set the finger

9:22

and that don't hurt me more miss just

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dumb mangled little useless know

9:27

but now well it's not a perfect

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results but it is better than the missing little

9:31

finger and gushing wound incremental

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progress is the point of these experiments

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i am satisfied customer

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oh why think that it's great think

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of the possible use cases michael there

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is enormous potential for this to be used

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in the medical industry if

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we can perfect this someone who actually

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lost a little thing i could have a new one without

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any sort of surgery and that's only

9:54

the superficial use what about someone

9:56

who needs a new liver the possibilities

9:58

are limitless i'm trouble

10:01

is nice to have sure but this to

10:03

so much more powerful than that and

10:06

you are helping us discover just

10:08

how powerful and helpful it is to

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michael michael care about none

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of that

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sure it's nice but that's

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not why i'm here i'm

10:18

, because base needed help i'm

10:20

not here to explore the possibilities

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of medical technology or whatever

10:24

you're doing every time we

10:26

improve base improves the

10:29

non emergency you could probably

10:31

do this with the rudimentary tools that

10:33

you have not seen consolidation

10:36

go wrong too many times with them calculators

10:38

to ever try that again they're dangerous

10:41

enough just moving stuff around

10:43

have been killed because a digit got flipped more

10:46

than once let's

10:48

talk upgrades when you're out of here

10:50

it might be time for new setup

10:52

you say that like you're gonna let me outta

10:54

here one day oh i plan to

10:57

your debt to me and my facility is

10:59

live show but it's not infinite your

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to run a tile to be contained

11:03

really like a radioactive

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isotope as a lot of benefit

11:08

to that radioactivity the shit energy of

11:10

it all how believe you when i'm back

11:12

home safe and sound

11:14

her anna

11:16

though i'm cooperating

11:18

gotta chunk of meat out a meme now

11:20

i got some request a mile know let's

11:23

hit him first i want proof

11:25

that you're working on the mustard seed case and

11:27

that you're capable of getting the job done

11:30

we will show you the operations center first

11:32

thing in the morning you can even help us with

11:34

a project if you'd like i would

11:37

secondly can i have my

11:39

damn at back out what

11:41

i think it looks so good on me don't you think looks

11:43

better on me plus it's mine

11:47

i'm just having some fun with your michael

11:50

partner well between

11:52

you shave and my beard and taken and

11:54

hat i don't feel like myself

11:57

in this pinkie finger situation ain't

11:59

helping either let's make

12:01

a deal you are scheduled for

12:03

an experiment tomorrow afternoon not

12:05

dissimilar in intensity to the one from today

12:08

so , tomorrow you are willing to fully

12:10

cooperate from the beginning i

12:12

will give you a hatchback and

12:14

i won't make you safe anymore anymore

12:17

another thing that i'm sorry about if i'd known

12:19

about the sky i would have reconsidered

12:21

you could ask me and there's a story

12:24

behind that behind lesson

12:26

learnt when want to give you too much

12:28

control oh i know that mike walters

12:30

can turn an inch of leeway into a gaping

12:33

hole well i volunteered

12:35

to be here so i am going

12:37

nowhere till you find till seed

12:40

glad to hear it glad ,

12:42

this has been in us experimenting on the

12:44

cowboy for the day so why don't i initiate

12:46

the fail safe and we get you back to your quarters

12:49

you must be allowed having one of your little fingers immobile

12:51

like that feels awful go

12:54

on corrected so i can go

12:56

back to my room sure thing

12:58

wait right here in your hand will be back to normal

13:01

before you know it

13:11

oh good

13:12

all good and ten fingers fully

13:14

mobile

13:15

the lender a take the dog your

13:18

left felix is waiting to escort you

13:20

back to your quarters have a great

13:22

rest of your day michael job

13:24

i'm going to have a great rest of my day

13:38

now dog open up what

13:41

you want time he told me that

13:43

we were done for the day it's getting late

13:48

now that i

13:50

was in such a rush to grow into your freedom

13:53

for the day that i forgot all about the experiment

13:55

evaluation would fill out spear

14:00

shouldn't be too much of a a hassle to complete

14:02

basic stuff, just in personal info

14:04

to help calibrate things

14:07

you know, it's disrespectful,

14:09

right? taking my hat for men,

14:12

wearing it around and insult

14:15

me , i don't see it that way until i'm

14:18

i'm starting to get why you like it so much it

14:20

i'm understanding you back to everyday

14:22

michael to everyday like a

14:24

cowboy just wearing it and

14:27

in a line pilgrim put him up and

14:30

makes me feel in control the situation

14:33

you are in control of the situation

14:36

alma , for me to want to have near

14:38

lucky that you're the one in charge for

14:41

had my druthers had gun your down

14:43

soon as look at you michael

14:47

i , you the accent never comes

14:49

off does it only attitude your

14:53

your

14:55

i have a word for your ram

14:58

i guess a stubborn that's like in a fun

15:00

way

15:01

the ornery ornery

15:04

ornery

15:07

i dare say that i like that about games

15:09

i do when it goes you like it that's

15:12

, with me i just wanted wanted

15:14

should catch a movie sometime i'm sure you know

15:17

all kinds of amazing cowboy movies right

15:19

michael you ain't gonna watch a movie

15:21

with movie i'm gonna sit here

15:23

in this bare room till i die only

15:25

been taken out to be tinkered with

15:28

i know wow i goes sits

15:30

, the case i'm

15:32

not the monster you think i am i'm not trying

15:35

to talk to you then to must

15:37

come you silver

15:39

tongue as always you know won't

15:43

come won't come with come with said that

15:45

said was gonna show you the mustard seed command center tomorrow

15:48

but let's do it this evening it'll be empty

15:50

just you and me

15:52

come on come on yep

15:55

let's go new if you

15:57

say so

16:00

that's really quite foot sewage system

16:02

you came to us in your time of need

16:05

this mustard seed investigation dovetails

16:07

nicely with some research that we've been doing regarding

16:10

surveillance specifically

16:12

how to track someone as tricky

16:14

as mustard seed so when you called

16:16

a sub we knew we had our patient zero

16:19

him step inside

16:22

this is all for mustard seed this

16:25

is all for you michael

16:27

this is your project hey

16:29

then so what's all this equipment do

16:32

think of it as analogous to

16:34

the internet we tried tracking

16:36

mustard seed across the actual internet no avail

16:38

as expected someone who has

16:40

taken basic precautions can hide where they

16:42

are fairly efficiently with

16:44

time travel it's much more of i'm

16:47

well , a wild

16:49

west so to so to

16:51

our knowledge nobody knows how to

16:53

cover their tracks yet and there are tracks

16:56

something happens between the original location

16:59

and the location traveled to so

17:01

there's something connecting them somehow we

17:04

are in the early stages of figuring out exactly

17:07

what that interaction is and what it

17:09

can tell us about the original location

17:12

in other words if we know somewhere that mustard seed

17:14

traveled to we can discover

17:16

where mustard seed traveled from in

17:19

theory

17:20

well my no one believes that

17:22

mustard seed traveled do

17:24

they traveled into the walls of my apartment and

17:26

but a bug in there we

17:28

went to corrected they put edgar in there instead

17:31

and things went you

17:34

know what my don't like enough to tell you

17:36

what happened but we corrected

17:38

are correction so as far as i know

17:40

mustard seed was still in there

17:43

and that's what

17:45

spooked the grizzled old cowboy enough

17:47

to show up here

17:48

the been tragic you don't have to tell

17:51

me i can tell me face mustard

17:53

seed was right in front of us in there weren't nothing

17:55

that we can do about it

17:57

i must have been aggravating that

18:00

does sound like something we might be able to investigate

18:02

though if we can trace them without triggering

18:05

whatever they used to put edgar in the wall instead

18:08

we should lead us right to them with them being none

18:10

the wiser but of i understand

18:12

correctly if you get this technology

18:14

up and running we never safe from you

18:16

ever again are we

18:18

the we do that than you can watch our

18:20

every move and we can ever run away

18:23

you'd be able to trace us just like you trace mustard

18:25

seed nearly no escape

18:27

you guys are clever i'm sure you'll figure

18:29

something out not that

18:32

though hub will not would

18:34

yanking that computer out of the wall and smashing

18:37

into that one get you anywhere the research

18:39

on that computer is redundant we have backups

18:41

in several separate locations all that

18:43

would do is ensure that you never got this handbag

18:46

sorry upon them i won the jewel

18:49

i work think about smash and the computer

18:52

i'm worried about you spying on us sure

18:54

but i'm most worried about base be

18:56

unsafe for mustard seed i wouldn't

18:58

do that well that's

19:00

an improvement then i knew you'd come around

19:02

eventually not as fast as mike

19:05

up and mikey not as fast as

19:07

mikey but eventually though

19:10

what are you gonna do to mustard seed after

19:12

you track him down whatever you

19:14

want michael we are simply resolving

19:16

some business between you and them we

19:19

could try to stop them from ever becoming

19:21

mustard seed we could imprison them here

19:24

you could death on least some cowboy

19:26

justice on a miss you really wanted to

19:29

i don't think anyone would judge you for that

19:32

some thought

19:33

i don't think i'm ready to think about that

19:35

yet understandable it's

19:38

getting late nice bring the wild back

19:40

to his enclosure let's head back back

19:43

that talks to damn friendly dog only

19:45

edgar gets to call me that right

19:48

where enemies gotcha i

19:50

should bring the prisoner back to his cage now

19:52

that you tell and and our what is maybe

19:55

movie nights will convince you otherwise

19:57

until then back in your cage yes

20:00

sir

20:09

michael michael

20:11

michael calm down please

20:13

calm calm down breathe

20:16

freeze tom still

20:18

, this was saying you says it just the same

20:20

as last size know

20:23

either

20:25

do the time

20:28

smitten know like last

20:30

not refuse and get

20:32

, can't do this and i are are

20:37

be okay big okay deep

20:39

, com yeah

20:41

you can make it through this you own your handbag

20:44

right and your that symbolizes

20:48

i'm not doing this on purpose my

20:50

body's is doing it doing understand

20:53

this body's is that difficulty

20:55

is why what you're doing is valuable in the first

20:57

place and once you graduate

20:59

your full immersion in the program we

21:01

can progress the experiments that only michael

21:04

a cowboy can do we need

21:06

to get over some minor hurdles first

21:08

do it quick chat i can't do this

21:10

if we don't do a quick run out com os

21:12

don't think that would be advisable if you squirm

21:15

why i'm perform the procedure then it will only

21:17

cause more pain i

21:19

need to be sure that you can sit still because

21:21

this procedure will be longer than the previous

21:23

one i'm going to remove the little

21:25

finger and holding back holding it's original

21:28

place with medical glue and bandages

21:30

that will take will take longer you're

21:33

going to be ready soon you seem to

21:35

have come down quite a bit in just a few

21:37

moments calm

21:39

down i'm sorry

21:41

this ain't me protest in nassau the tools

21:44

and something came over me that

21:47

could happen to anyone

21:48

you ready

21:50

put your hand on the work surface

21:52

please this

21:54

is going to be more involved than a simple snip

21:56

so how about we get your mind somewhere

21:59

else as best we tell

22:01

me a story about edgar any

22:04

, a favorite one might be better

22:06

oh okay i'm a story

22:09

okay so me

22:11

and edgar when everywhere that we could think of

22:14

on our honeymoon this why not get

22:17

in there was as simple as put nine where we

22:19

wanted to go from so i wanted to

22:21

go to small barred something

22:23

about people living that far north on some

22:26

feels magical to me that's

22:28

about as far north as anyone lives

22:30

and that always go or

22:34

weren't too keen it first i'm

22:36

bigger than him and kept the any freeze

22:38

out there while there while be nice and warm i

22:41

told him that on keep them warm the

22:44

james's june when we got up there though we

22:46

decided he

22:50

going for some storing says he says

22:52

as a menace what did you do in svalbard

22:55

we , overnight trip to on highest

22:57

case case

23:00

and man in his that might that once

23:03

you get outside long get been you

23:05

can here taken you the polar know

23:09

during the the season a don't get don't

23:13

, why on earth actually thought

23:16

that don't get lot out earth the thought

23:19

the sky over his breath

23:22

, can then they day us into

23:24

the i had

23:26

never as anything like tons

23:28

, naturals in into corridors i spaces

23:32

oh may buy ice and we

23:34

camped out there under

23:36

there glacier at

23:38

any cost quite

23:47

easy all around an

23:52

imbalance now that be

23:54

the most of beauty i oversaw of eyes

23:56

smith started didn't

23:59

know

24:03

i'm dumb or a to

24:05

the consolidation room you know gone tell

24:07

me twice

24:12

what that old they do to you you

24:14

mean you don't know allerdale

24:17

, i know new word aerated

24:19

offer me between yesterday and today saw

24:21

didn't know that was aerated off with someone

24:25

someone many of us are there are

24:27

didn't even know there was two of us standstill

24:30

quickly was nice to meet you michael

24:33

three two one

24:38

you

24:40

together i'll be back in a moment's check you out

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so what's the damage compared

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to last time know ,

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don't think there is any damage well

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there's a dark land where my palms stops

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in my pinky starts but look

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i can move it i can feel it feels

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same as it ever does right

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back to normal wonderful and

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no pain and gain it off like

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it never happened that's amazing

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news michael we are getting somewhere with

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this and it is all thanks to you

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partner

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yeah

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driving this is long overdue your

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cowboy hat michael now

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, pilgrim

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i made a copy of it for myself to wear

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them together for movie night you potion

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is this experiment work and don't

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make us friends the mustard

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seed work as work as at best

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maybe not friends but

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i may be cowboys that see

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each other from opposite sides of the valley and

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respectfully nord while keeping their distance

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think of it however you want ah i'll

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do that thank you very much our

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ask what's next

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the voice of tie better it was david old

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you can check him out in shadows of the door

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for queer british horror and the gayest and

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vast adaptation of the picture of dorian

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gray a , special thanks

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to david for receiving a script from me

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that prompted him to do a cowboy impression

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and not rejecting it fun

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fact about this episode this episode the only

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episode of woebegone were mike or mikey

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do not appear cowboys only

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what about someone who needs a new liver

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this upon the suppositories a limitless

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every time we improve base improves

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in an emergency you could probably

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do this with the rudimentary tools that

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you have nasa

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chekhov's gun if i ever i saw on

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i'm sure you know all kinds of amazing cowboy

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movie cowboy movies

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how boy movies esa my that such

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a difficult phrase saying

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eleven

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