But HR would have to actually leave his basement to come after her, and we all know that’s about as likely as Bandit resisting the urge to mess with Frigg and Gravedust as they sleep.
HR hasn’t been himself lately. He wen’t out and got a shower and brought back an apple. (Fresh fruit probly good thing after all that fast food) He even changed his majick tie!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stripes this time. Instead of an evil genius on the threshold of a nervous breakdown, He is now self confident again like. He is focused. Acts like a man who is POSSESSED. (What ever happened to that Ashok dude?) He put away all the skulls and candles and his signed first edition Necronomicon. Like he don’t need em anymore cuz phaze one is complete. I would say he is ready to make a breakthrough. Maybe he doesn’t need to be in the basement 24-7. Why wouldn’t he go outside?
P.S. What do you think Carol is gonna tell him? Will she wait or tell him rite away? Will she be able to get a word in edgewise cuz HR is too busy telling her what to do? And what is that door that must not be opened mentioned by Clif the normal looking Savasi ghost in Friggs fever dream?
She knows someone has been killed already. She has an idea of the power and influence HR can wield – even if you discount the magic part. And now she has seen first-hand that he has at least one follower with enough commitment to be an accessory to murder.
oK, I will concede. She can’t prove the murder with what she got at the moment. But her line of reasoning about what is going on is sound up to now. And even if you consider her reasoning weak (I don’t, up to now), it doesn’t change the fact that, by coincidence or not, her guesses are all correct.
Doesn’t necessarily need to be a lyric or a reference to anything. It could just well be a continuation of the general idea Shanna was getting into in the first panel. “He needs me is the affirmation of the battered wife”. Similarly, “Later, you’ll tell yourself this was the only way” is expressing how Carol and others delude themselves.
In other news, I think I’ve finally figured out why this little segment has cemented my dislike of Shanna. There’s no sincerity in her. Everything Shanna’s said to Carol is carefully calculated to push her buttons so she’ll do what Shanna wants. Not to mention it all being generic platitudes that you can get from any book/movie/whatever.
If I thought she was actually trying to help then I’d probably feel more sympathetic to her.
She’s dealing with an enemy, not a friend. She’s trying to extract a confession from a crazy person who is an accessory to at least one murder, and placing her own life in serious danger to do so. You can god damn bet her words are carefully calculated.
Well, her motivation seems to be mostly about making some pullizer winning paper about how video games turns people into killers and is the work of Evil. If that actually help putting some culprit in jail, bonus.
If justice was her main motivation, she would have gone to the police to report Ferris missing and her suspicions.
I think it’s been made pretty clear in over the course of the comic so far that Shanna’s main motivation is justice, or at least answers. Her very first appearance showed that her interests in were finding out what happened to the 5 missing persons.
Who knows what she’s thinking in terms of logically handling the situation, (she probably doesn’t think the police will believe her or be of any use,) but her heart is in the right place from what I can see. I’m not sure where you got “games are bad” as a motivation from.
The Pulitzer motivation I can see though. A story on a situation like this is pretty much Pulitzer bait, though for Shanna to use the term “Pulitzer bait” makes me think that’s not her motivation either, but who knows.
It’s obviously not been made clear, given that several of us have expressed doubt over Shanna’s motivations.
Regarding “games are bad”, Shanna apparently has a reputation for writing sensationalist tripe that demonizes video games. Carol mentions that when they first meet, and Shanna doesn’t deny it.
The dishonesty is only part of the thing for me. What cements it is that she’s the recognized hero of another comic altogether. She’s the Good Guy, which (as the comments here can attest) means anyone who she goes up against is a Bad Guy.
As an analogy: Falling Down is a great movie. A hypothetical Falling Down where John McClane barges in halfway through and decks Defense right when he’s about to blow up the interstate? Meh.
Exactly. It’s there, but many who dislike Shanna and like Carol have probably either missed it or don’t want to believe its there. (No offense to those who like Carol, as I like Carol too.)
To CorrTerek, it was mentioned once to my knowledge, and rather vaguely. We don’t know if she’s Jack Thompson levels of anti-violence or rather just believes parents shouldn’t buy Postal 2 for their 8 year old and thinks they and sellers should be more responsible. Likewise, we don’t know how against the Dark Knight she was, if at all, or if Carol just used that as an unrelated example as a distraction.
Main point is, there is a lot more evidence supporting Shanna’s justice seeking motivations than there is in support of her anti-violent media beliefs. But to me, it’s not a popularity contest between either character. They’re both fascinating and well written.
Well, I read “Fans!” and Shanna IS interested in justice. But, she is also extremely practical. There is no proof of anything, just conjecture and instinct on Shanna’a part. There is nothing concrete to go to the police for, and if she DID get the cops to check things out, it would just drive H.R. further into hiding. After all, he has the power (i.e., money) to give the cops the sort of tour that proves nothing is wrong.
Much better to do this Shanna’s way. Let him get cocky and start making more noticeable mistakes. Besides, Shanna has experience with weird shit.
I’m sure the police would totally believe that a big games developer has kidnapped people and is keeping them in lab vats as part of some sort of scientific experiment. Lol.
She has no interest in helping killers. Just the missing five. I would be offering Carol no sympathies either; the only difference is I wouldn’t be brave enough to do this.
Stupid enough, you mean? When she saw Ferris’s house was seemingly abandoned, that was the time to go to the police. Instead she decided to go for the story, and it’s likely to get her killed.
You overestimate the police and the law. The sad thing is that big corporations get away with far worse in the real world, and with more evidence. Shanna needs more. She’s not stupid.
Who needs more evidence to say “Hey, this guy’s house seems to be abandoned and none of his neighbors have seen him in awhile. Might want to check on that.”
Let the police build the murder case. They’re trained for it.
And it will go either nowhere at all or, at best, involve a lower level employee (like Carol) getting thrown under the bus while the true culprits go free. That is how big business operates.
Getting a Pulitzer is a neutral goal. You’re confusing results with intentions. Shanna’s work may result in Ferris’s murderer being brought to justice (good, yes?), but given that she started digging into this long before Ferris died you can’t claim that was her motivation.
And Shanna’s interference may have bad results too — what happens to the Five if she shuts Hurricane down?
Strictly speaking, her own words indicate that she’s in it for the paycheck. First thing she says after talking about the investigation is how she hopes it will pay for physical therapy for the carpal tunnel syndrome she has as a result of typing so much.
Eh. That was rude of me. I’ve been up all night and all day with a sick kid and my nerves are a bit shot.
At any rate, I’m aware of the sarcasm, but she’s still expecting to get paid. She is writing the story for money. We’ve seen her thoughts and there’s nothing beyond superficial concern for the missing five, if that.
CorrTerek, you’re right that Shanna’s first few thoughts focus on things like “Pulitzer bait” and “paying for physical therapy.” But there is also a bit that inspires Fiaryn’s avatar which indicates that not all the idealism has been crushed out of her. I feel like her concerns about cash, reflected in her apartment, echo Byron’s early scenes: he’s a noble and hearty hero who has to deal with an economy that doesn’t reward people merely for having good character, and actually tends to punish pure altruism.
Not that Shanna’s on that level, necessarily, but Carol doesoffer Shanna several bribes, and Shanna blitzes by the offers like they’re not even there. You’d think that if Shanna were really in it mostly for the money, she’d at least consider the offers. She knows Carol’s got resources. So perhaps her narration shouldn’t be the sole measure of her character. Some of us are less cynical than we ourselves believe.
At any rate, I sure hope your kid’s better after a good night’s rest. I’ve been in that situation and it’s aggravating on so many levels: worried about getting sick yourself, frustrated by what you can’t do, worried it might turn serious, and then there’s the sleeplessness. Take it easy.
This “T”-guy above me seems to know the comic quite well.
The thing I’m interested about is whether the line of critique against Shanna that can be read here (CorrTerek’s, btw: hope your kid gets well soon!) would be articulated, if there was a male reporter instead… Somehow i’ve got the idea that it wouldn’t. I’m not sure though.
Benedikt, perhaps in some ways. If we gave ‘Shanna’ the exact same actions, but just made them a male character (Shawn?), my guess is there’d be more speculation about whether Shawn is trying to seduce Carol.
Well, wait. Is there something inherently wrong with hypothetical speculation that hypothetical Shawn is trying to seduce Carol? Certainly the prior probability that Shawn wants to sleep with Carol is higher than the prior probability that Shanna wants to sleep with Carol. And sure, the evidence doesn’t really support an attempted seduction, but this is the internet. The remarkable thing is that I haven’t noticed anybody shipping Shanna and Carol for no sensible reason, not that people are hypothetically talking about Shawn seducing Carol.
“Shanna’s manipulating her for a good goal” — if Shanna gets proof, what will she do first? Publish an article in hopes of an award and wait to see what the police do, or go to the police first and give them the proof needed to write her article? Her own scenes clearly argue for the first outcome, which means she is not in this for justice or “goodness” but for her own benefit.
“quest for god-like power”? All he ever wanted was a video game. He doesn’t even believe it is a real, separate reality and he just keeps trying to shut it down. Sure, he’s gone crazy trying to get the 5 out without killing them, but if he didn’t care about them he could just shut it off and let them die(?)
thank you I was trying to figure out why I didn’t like anyone in this exchange. HR and Carol are EVIL for sure but Shanna just comes off as patronizing.
Off-topic just-happened realization: If H.R. is visually based on William H. Macy with a mustache, is Shanna a younger, thinner version of Barbara Streisand?
Today’s alt-text is like a triple entendre turned inside-out. It foreshadows very different things depending on whether it’s speaking to Shanna, to Carol, or to us.
I wonder if that couple thinks they’re a couple? what strange things that must imply…
Also, Shanna must have skin of steel to have no mark from a slap that knocked her to the ground
Technically, we didn’t see where Carol slapped Shanna precisely. Shanna may very well be sporting a cauliflower ear now and only have it hidden by her hair. But speculation, so alas…
This is the “REAL” world, where manicheism doesn’t work. While in Arkerra the bad guys are so clearly recognizable they even wear badges and organize conventions, here the things really mix up. While in Arkerra there can be confused heroes doing things the wrong way, in the Starbucks universe there aren’t heroes at all.
That’s the whole point of HR obsession, of Carol loyalty and Shanna quest.
HR wants a good world, free of injustice, failure and doubt. Carol wants to help a genius leader, an maybe some love. Shanna wants recognition for her hard and necesary work. What’s so bad about their wishes?
They are all doing what they see as good things (but are not), with mixed results (wich they don’t see), for the wrong reasons (And they DO KNOW IT!).
While Shanna is doing a good thing from her own point of view, searching for 6 missing person, keep in mind that if everyone discovers the tubes, the people inside are dead. HR has lot of others motives and isn’t exactly a friend of justice, but at the very least he is trying to save them.
Shanna is on a roll.
Also I’m assuming the last panel is Shanna’s thoughts?
Hopefully she’ll be rolled all the way downhill into the sea for being a meddling bint.
Whelp, no face melting. Why is Shanna the one about to become a fugitive? She didn’t just assault someone in public.
Maybe she thinks HR will come after her? I agree, not clear at all.
Shanna mentioned several times that this course of action is putting her life in danger.
But HR would have to actually leave his basement to come after her, and we all know that’s about as likely as Bandit resisting the urge to mess with Frigg and Gravedust as they sleep.
i dunno, he went out for chinese food one time:D
HR hasn’t been himself lately. He wen’t out and got a shower and brought back an apple. (Fresh fruit probly good thing after all that fast food) He even changed his majick tie!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stripes this time. Instead of an evil genius on the threshold of a nervous breakdown, He is now self confident again like. He is focused. Acts like a man who is POSSESSED. (What ever happened to that Ashok dude?) He put away all the skulls and candles and his signed first edition Necronomicon. Like he don’t need em anymore cuz phaze one is complete. I would say he is ready to make a breakthrough. Maybe he doesn’t need to be in the basement 24-7. Why wouldn’t he go outside?
P.S. What do you think Carol is gonna tell him? Will she wait or tell him rite away? Will she be able to get a word in edgewise cuz HR is too busy telling her what to do? And what is that door that must not be opened mentioned by Clif the normal looking Savasi ghost in Friggs fever dream?
No he wen’t.
She knows someone has been killed already. She has an idea of the power and influence HR can wield – even if you discount the magic part. And now she has seen first-hand that he has at least one follower with enough commitment to be an accessory to murder.
She ‘knows’ nothing of the sort, she is clutching at straws or she would have gone to the police if not the FBI
oK, I will concede. She can’t prove the murder with what she got at the moment. But her line of reasoning about what is going on is sound up to now. And even if you consider her reasoning weak (I don’t, up to now), it doesn’t change the fact that, by coincidence or not, her guesses are all correct.
I agree, she knows that her chase of the truth will cost her dearly.
“In a fight between a mad dog and a sane dog, it’s the sane dog that gets its ear torn off.”
This time…..it’s personal. (⌐■_■)
I don’t quite understand the alt text. For some weird reason I want to say it is lyrics from a song, but I don’t recognize the song. Any ideas?
the googles do nothing!
“Mein GoOggles! Zey do nothing!”
Doesn’t necessarily need to be a lyric or a reference to anything. It could just well be a continuation of the general idea Shanna was getting into in the first panel. “He needs me is the affirmation of the battered wife”. Similarly, “Later, you’ll tell yourself this was the only way” is expressing how Carol and others delude themselves.
^ This.
Ah. Yea I didn’t recognize that as that. I knew it didn’t have to be a lyric or reference, but for some reason it got stuck in my head that it was.
Yaaaay. Hit her again!
In other news, I think I’ve finally figured out why this little segment has cemented my dislike of Shanna. There’s no sincerity in her. Everything Shanna’s said to Carol is carefully calculated to push her buttons so she’ll do what Shanna wants. Not to mention it all being generic platitudes that you can get from any book/movie/whatever.
If I thought she was actually trying to help then I’d probably feel more sympathetic to her.
She’s dealing with an enemy, not a friend. She’s trying to extract a confession from a crazy person who is an accessory to at least one murder, and placing her own life in serious danger to do so. You can god damn bet her words are carefully calculated.
But she’s pretending to be dealing with a friend. And Carol *does* need help. That should be patently obvious.
Carol needs help, but I’d say her victims’ need for help takes higher priority. I think Shanna is justified in the deliberate approach she is taking.
Because trying to stop a killer and his accomplice from killing again helps noone?
Well, her motivation seems to be mostly about making some pullizer winning paper about how video games turns people into killers and is the work of Evil. If that actually help putting some culprit in jail, bonus.
If justice was her main motivation, she would have gone to the police to report Ferris missing and her suspicions.
In any case, that slap made me glee. :p
I think it’s been made pretty clear in over the course of the comic so far that Shanna’s main motivation is justice, or at least answers. Her very first appearance showed that her interests in were finding out what happened to the 5 missing persons.
Who knows what she’s thinking in terms of logically handling the situation, (she probably doesn’t think the police will believe her or be of any use,) but her heart is in the right place from what I can see. I’m not sure where you got “games are bad” as a motivation from.
The Pulitzer motivation I can see though. A story on a situation like this is pretty much Pulitzer bait, though for Shanna to use the term “Pulitzer bait” makes me think that’s not her motivation either, but who knows.
It’s obviously not been made clear, given that several of us have expressed doubt over Shanna’s motivations.
Regarding “games are bad”, Shanna apparently has a reputation for writing sensationalist tripe that demonizes video games. Carol mentions that when they first meet, and Shanna doesn’t deny it.
The dishonesty is only part of the thing for me. What cements it is that she’s the recognized hero of another comic altogether. She’s the Good Guy, which (as the comments here can attest) means anyone who she goes up against is a Bad Guy.
As an analogy: Falling Down is a great movie. A hypothetical Falling Down where John McClane barges in halfway through and decks Defense right when he’s about to blow up the interstate? Meh.
Love that song
“It’s obviously not been made clear, given that several of us have expressed doubt over Shanna’s motivations.”
… doesn’t follow. Sorry.
Exactly. It’s there, but many who dislike Shanna and like Carol have probably either missed it or don’t want to believe its there. (No offense to those who like Carol, as I like Carol too.)
To CorrTerek, it was mentioned once to my knowledge, and rather vaguely. We don’t know if she’s Jack Thompson levels of anti-violence or rather just believes parents shouldn’t buy Postal 2 for their 8 year old and thinks they and sellers should be more responsible. Likewise, we don’t know how against the Dark Knight she was, if at all, or if Carol just used that as an unrelated example as a distraction.
Main point is, there is a lot more evidence supporting Shanna’s justice seeking motivations than there is in support of her anti-violent media beliefs. But to me, it’s not a popularity contest between either character. They’re both fascinating and well written.
Well, I read “Fans!” and Shanna IS interested in justice. But, she is also extremely practical. There is no proof of anything, just conjecture and instinct on Shanna’a part. There is nothing concrete to go to the police for, and if she DID get the cops to check things out, it would just drive H.R. further into hiding. After all, he has the power (i.e., money) to give the cops the sort of tour that proves nothing is wrong.
Much better to do this Shanna’s way. Let him get cocky and start making more noticeable mistakes. Besides, Shanna has experience with weird shit.
I’m sure the police would totally believe that a big games developer has kidnapped people and is keeping them in lab vats as part of some sort of scientific experiment. Lol.
She has no interest in helping killers. Just the missing five. I would be offering Carol no sympathies either; the only difference is I wouldn’t be brave enough to do this.
Stupid enough, you mean? When she saw Ferris’s house was seemingly abandoned, that was the time to go to the police. Instead she decided to go for the story, and it’s likely to get her killed.
You overestimate the police and the law. The sad thing is that big corporations get away with far worse in the real world, and with more evidence. Shanna needs more. She’s not stupid.
Who needs more evidence to say “Hey, this guy’s house seems to be abandoned and none of his neighbors have seen him in awhile. Might want to check on that.”
Let the police build the murder case. They’re trained for it.
And it will go either nowhere at all or, at best, involve a lower level employee (like Carol) getting thrown under the bus while the true culprits go free. That is how big business operates.
As opposed to now, where she’s likely to get murdered and have her body dumped in the ocean with no one the wiser?
She took her chances and it seemed like she almost succeeded. Who knows what could have happened if not for this ill timed short message?
“Everything Shanna’s said to Carol is carefully calculated to push her buttons so she’ll do what Shanna wants.”
Oh please. Shanna’s manipulating her for a good goal. HR does maniulates her too, but just for his own, petty, egoistical quest for god-like power.
Getting a Pulitzer is a neutral goal. You’re confusing results with intentions. Shanna’s work may result in Ferris’s murderer being brought to justice (good, yes?), but given that she started digging into this long before Ferris died you can’t claim that was her motivation.
And Shanna’s interference may have bad results too — what happens to the Five if she shuts Hurricane down?
Who precisely has said that Shanna’s motivation is getting a Pulitzer? Carol? Or Shanna? What is our evidence, precisely?
Shanna’s own words indicate that her chief interest in this is the fact that five people are gone. Missing. Vanished.
Strictly speaking, her own words indicate that she’s in it for the paycheck. First thing she says after talking about the investigation is how she hopes it will pay for physical therapy for the carpal tunnel syndrome she has as a result of typing so much.
I know reading comprehension isn’t strong as a general rule but…goddamn man. Can you not tell a joke when you read it?
Nope. Not at all. Was that one, or were you just being needlessly condescending?
Eh. That was rude of me. I’ve been up all night and all day with a sick kid and my nerves are a bit shot.
At any rate, I’m aware of the sarcasm, but she’s still expecting to get paid. She is writing the story for money. We’ve seen her thoughts and there’s nothing beyond superficial concern for the missing five, if that.
CorrTerek, you’re right that Shanna’s first few thoughts focus on things like “Pulitzer bait” and “paying for physical therapy.” But there is also a bit that inspires Fiaryn’s avatar which indicates that not all the idealism has been crushed out of her. I feel like her concerns about cash, reflected in her apartment, echo Byron’s early scenes: he’s a noble and hearty hero who has to deal with an economy that doesn’t reward people merely for having good character, and actually tends to punish pure altruism.
Not that Shanna’s on that level, necessarily, but Carol does offer Shanna several bribes, and Shanna blitzes by the offers like they’re not even there. You’d think that if Shanna were really in it mostly for the money, she’d at least consider the offers. She knows Carol’s got resources. So perhaps her narration shouldn’t be the sole measure of her character. Some of us are less cynical than we ourselves believe.
At any rate, I sure hope your kid’s better after a good night’s rest. I’ve been in that situation and it’s aggravating on so many levels: worried about getting sick yourself, frustrated by what you can’t do, worried it might turn serious, and then there’s the sleeplessness. Take it easy.
This “T”-guy above me seems to know the comic quite well.
The thing I’m interested about is whether the line of critique against Shanna that can be read here (CorrTerek’s, btw: hope your kid gets well soon!) would be articulated, if there was a male reporter instead… Somehow i’ve got the idea that it wouldn’t. I’m not sure though.
Benedikt, perhaps in some ways. If we gave ‘Shanna’ the exact same actions, but just made them a male character (Shawn?), my guess is there’d be more speculation about whether Shawn is trying to seduce Carol.
Loki, this could well be. If it was true, even worse so. (As sexism doesn’t cancel itself out..)
Well, wait. Is there something inherently wrong with hypothetical speculation that hypothetical Shawn is trying to seduce Carol? Certainly the prior probability that Shawn wants to sleep with Carol is higher than the prior probability that Shanna wants to sleep with Carol. And sure, the evidence doesn’t really support an attempted seduction, but this is the internet. The remarkable thing is that I haven’t noticed anybody shipping Shanna and Carol for no sensible reason, not that people are hypothetically talking about Shawn seducing Carol.
“Shanna’s manipulating her for a good goal” — if Shanna gets proof, what will she do first? Publish an article in hopes of an award and wait to see what the police do, or go to the police first and give them the proof needed to write her article? Her own scenes clearly argue for the first outcome, which means she is not in this for justice or “goodness” but for her own benefit.
“quest for god-like power”? All he ever wanted was a video game. He doesn’t even believe it is a real, separate reality and he just keeps trying to shut it down. Sure, he’s gone crazy trying to get the 5 out without killing them, but if he didn’t care about them he could just shut it off and let them die(?)
thank you I was trying to figure out why I didn’t like anyone in this exchange. HR and Carol are EVIL for sure but Shanna just comes off as patronizing.
Off-topic just-happened realization: If H.R. is visually based on William H. Macy with a mustache, is Shanna a younger, thinner version of Barbara Streisand?
Close Mecha Streisand I would say. http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s01e12-mecha-streisand
BA-BU-RA! BA-BU-RA!
Today’s alt-text is like a triple entendre turned inside-out. It foreshadows very different things depending on whether it’s speaking to Shanna, to Carol, or to us.
Boooooo!
I demand more mud and pudding for the next cat fight!
Three years later, Shanna will be chilling in Trinidad and wondering why the hell Carol never came after her.
Until she looks closer at the new cabana girl and the moustached bartender with unique tie but no shirt
oh, you didn’t think i forgot about you, did you?
Poifect! :D (to be honest, initially thought that was targetted at me :P)
Would have been great to see Carol’s neck scarf go all purple on that SLAP!!
It really would have, yeah, but unfortunately Carol lacks the arcane power necessary to own an item of color.
Aw shucks, purple neck scarf. I was gonna say that but you beat me to it. Yeah I don’t know if Carol is worthy to wear such an accessory.
Surprised dog is surprised.
I wonder if that couple thinks they’re a couple? what strange things that must imply…
Also, Shanna must have skin of steel to have no mark from a slap that knocked her to the ground
Technically, we didn’t see where Carol slapped Shanna precisely. Shanna may very well be sporting a cauliflower ear now and only have it hidden by her hair. But speculation, so alas…
There’s no good one here, and that’s the point:
This is the “REAL” world, where manicheism doesn’t work. While in Arkerra the bad guys are so clearly recognizable they even wear badges and organize conventions, here the things really mix up. While in Arkerra there can be confused heroes doing things the wrong way, in the Starbucks universe there aren’t heroes at all.
That’s the whole point of HR obsession, of Carol loyalty and Shanna quest.
HR wants a good world, free of injustice, failure and doubt. Carol wants to help a genius leader, an maybe some love. Shanna wants recognition for her hard and necesary work. What’s so bad about their wishes?
They are all doing what they see as good things (but are not), with mixed results (wich they don’t see), for the wrong reasons (And they DO KNOW IT!).
Agreed, very well put.
While Shanna is doing a good thing from her own point of view, searching for 6 missing person, keep in mind that if everyone discovers the tubes, the people inside are dead. HR has lot of others motives and isn’t exactly a friend of justice, but at the very least he is trying to save them.
Well, he was at one point. Things have gotten a bit more muddled since.
I miss the puns. :(
Anything I could come up with right now would be rather slapdash.
Iam getting vibes of Cave Johnson and Caroline. This isn’t going to end well for HR’s assistant.
“She’s escaped. But i’m the one who just became a fugitive.”
That is so wonderfully noir.