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Episode published on Sunday 13th of May, 2018.
I'm not going to outwardly declare who Pain talks to while "working the floor" as I don't want us to get sued, but you might recognise a few faces from...
- Marvel Comics
- Pokémon
- Max Payne
- Final Fantasy VII
- Dragonball
- Batman
I've also intentionally scrambled the list up so they aren't in order of appearance!
Tagged:
Location - Consortium Meeting Warehouse,
Mara Kyler,
Max Valerion
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Transcript
Title - 127: "The Consortium"
Subtitle - ix. "Working the Floor"
(Pain stretches his fingers with the palms outward, cracking his knuckles.)
Pain: Oh well, I suppose we'd better do a little bit of business while we're here...
(What follows is a montage of Pain working the floor of the conference. The first person he approaches is a big man with a huge beard and facial scar wearing a green jacket with red trim. Pain has his arm around the man as he talks. The man seems genuinely interested in what he has to say.)
Pain: No, what you've got there is the military model. You want the civilian model so you can sneak your guys right in. If you wanted to part-trade in your military helicopters we could do a deal...
(Pain then addresses four men - one is a huge bald man in a white suit, the second is a short man with red hair and an eyepatch, the third is a bald man with a moustache and the fourth is a well-presented man in an orange suit.)
Pain: Yeah, I mean, you're looking at two classic models of gun that have been in circulation since the Cold War, and for good reason. There's trade-offs, sure, but you've got to look at the aesthetic, too - if your suited grunts roll up with wood-stocked AK's you're going to look ramshackle. Roll up with a bunch of polished M16's, however...
(Next up, Pain talks to a man with dark eyes and black hair. He has a streak of white in his hair, a Fu Manchu beard and is wearing a green cloak over a suit. Pain helps himself to another champagne glass from one of the waiters while he talks. The waiter noticably blocks the other glasses, anticipating that Pain might take more than one.)
Pain: You're after the military model? And you've got the civilian model. As it turns out, I might just have a fresh stock of those military helicopters that would be perfect for raiding your enemies. We could do a part-exchange if you were willing to trade in your civilian choppers and provide a small fee on top, purely for logistics you understand...
(Pain then has an excited chat with a blonde man in a white suit. Both Pain and the man seem amused.)
Pain: The hard part of transporting artillery is not wrapping the bloody things up too much, you know what I mean? It's like getting your presents at Christmas, right? We've all had a present shaped like a teddy bear. Well, officials get a bit funny when a truck pulls in and the thing's clearly got a huge erect dong sticking up off the back of it and, between you and me, I might be speaking from experience...
(Pain gets tapped on the shoulder.)
Voice: Ahem?
(He turns around and discover that it's Mara.)
Mara: Did I just hear you talking about "huge erect dongs" and "speaking from experience"?
(Pain chuckles and rubs the back of his head, embarrassed.)
Pain: Eh heh!
