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Episode published on Saturday 1st of September, 2018.
The fat man at the table is the Detulux universe's homage to the many (similar) characters of Sydney Greenstreet. They don't make actors like him any more!
Tagged:
The Captain,
Exx Laxor,
Jason Mallet,
Jasper Fattmunn,
Kunz Cruci Grunveldt,
Location - Consortium Meeting Warehouse,
Mara Kyler,
Max Valerion,
Number Zwei,
W.R.A.I.T.H.
Comments
Transcript
Title - 131: "The Consortium"
Subtitle - xiii. "A Seat at the Table"
Narrator: Five minutes later...
(A lot of the "big" players at the venue have been assigned seats at the large conference table in the middle of the room via small name cards. Everyone else has to stand in the crowd around the table. Ralph and Gyrode are in the crowd, along with all the W.R.A.I.T.H subordinates. Grünveldt and Mallet have seats, along with several other notable criminals which includes a fat man in a white suit wearing a fez. Pain just stands in the crowd, bored. The Captain tugs on his arm while still holding his piled-up plate of buffet food.)
Captain: Er, you've got a seat at the table, Boss.
(Pain notices a name card for the empty seat near him. It reads "S. Pain, Detulux Incorporated". Pain is genuinely surprised by this.)
Pain: Blimey, just goes to show it's not what you know, it's who you know...
(Pain takes the seat, which is next to Jason Mallet, and tries to get comfy.)
Pain: Why are these over-designed chairs always so bloody annoying to sit on, am I right, guys?
(The large fat man with the fez is sat opposite Pain, and smiles. To the fat man's right Grünveldt looks sour.)
The Fat Man: I have to concur, sir. I do like a man who speaks his mind. I distrust a close-mouthed man; he generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously, unless you keep in practice.
(Pain appears confused by this convoluted but eloquent remark.)
Pain: Alright, mate. Didn't need your life story, I was just saying that the chairs are crap.
(Pain goes to steal food off of the Captain's plate from next to him. Grünveldt turns to the fat man and smirks as he makes a comment.)
Grünveldt: Ignore him, Jasper. You obviously haven't made the acquaintance of the world's most prolific self-styled low-rent insubordinate arms dealer. He doesn't seem to realise he's punching above his weight class.
(Holding a sausage roll, Pain appears surprised by Grünveldt's comment and points at the fat man.)
Pain: Was that a crack about this gent's weight?
(The fat man just laughs, Mallet suppresses a snigger. Grünveldt turns red in embarrassment as he realises what Pain is inferring.)
Grünveldt: What? No! Of course not, I didn't mean-
(Pain smiles as he goes to eat his sausage roll.)
Pain: Look, I don't want to get off on the wrong foot here, pleasure to meet you all.
(Pain sneers at Grünveldt, who has the expression of an enraged toddler.)
Pain: With a few exceptions, of course.
(At the head of the table stands Mara, hand on her hip and looking bored.)
Mara: Ahem! Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't mind we'd like to begin?
(She raises a hand dramatically while on a screen nearby the Consortium Logo shows; an "A" character over a stylised globe, white on black.)
Mara: Welcome to the Consortium!
