"yu hav a det vish, all hu vander into da abyzz nevar kam back and vor doze dat do return( and I rememberr onli van,) , he vaz zucked in agen...nevar to return."
(The video is split, one from the vantage point of the desk showing who comes in and out and the other from a vantage point with the purpose of showing who is behind the desk and what object gets in and out of from the stock. The "customer is wearing a police officer's uniform standing in front of the custodian's desk with a dilapidated sign that says "on leave". Sitting behind it, is an inmate with hair like pasta)
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Inspector Javier T: "I ask you again, who is this prisoner 65? of all of Inspector Aby's profile's , this one is the only one that does not have an entry, and what about this so-called secret floor?"
Pastafarian Mambunong: "your queztionz bearr a ztriking rresemblance to inzpector Aby W'z queztionz bevore he met hiz death, Prizonerr 65...I rememberr him, but ztrangely i could not remembarr hiz faze, he came yearz ago, just az yoo did, hunting a demon and he found him"
"you have a grand daughter, her name is Coreset? the law rewards those who become assets or witnesses, who knows you might get to see her soon enough, a lifetime or whatever is left of yours for information leading to the arrest of that criminal"
"du yu rili vant to juzt arezt him? no mater, juzt before yoo came ,I had a vizion telling me dat i be having a vizitor vit an ovver ov da hayezt value
(we see some deft movements of his hands with a deck of playing cards)
i just vander he! izit only avter an ovizer vas killed did they care about da marderer? or ven dey realized dat he iz beginning to kill even on da upper floor? zo dey need tu protect da VIPz"
"who is this prisoner 65 and where is the secret floor?"
"da door yoo arr azking me to open iz januz-vazed, az diz be your greatezt victory zo shall diz be yoor greatezt deveat. yoo vill- "
"will you cooperate or not"
" I vill, I vill. but lend diz old man an ear, juzt for a moment and I be telling you de vision I had, here hab zam tea"
(places a tin cup near javier T's side of the table)
"we are wasting time, this "moment" is deducted from the lifetime we are offering you. It could be the difference between life and death for his next victim"
"devoid of emotionz and full of calculationz, and yet I zee dat diz mazhine vill veep true tearz, I vas imprizoned vor a lifetime vor zelling one zingle marivana zeed?diz lifetime you are offering me? (chuckles) iz zometing yoo actually owe me"
"you owe that to your ignorance of the law"
"and das da law zay dat yoo get imprizond vorever for one marivana zeed?"
"there is no forever, you know that, but fine I will listen"
"exactli wat yoo will hear from zomeone born inzide a jail from criminal parentz and iz now a polize ovicer..."
(Jaiver T is stunned, sits down, takes the tea and drinks)
"zank yu. and du not vari, canabiz tea is almozt legal in diz kantri"
(Javier T stops drinking and almost gets up, but the pastafarian mambunong starts to talk)
"Iv you arr here, den yu arr zertain dat ov ol da prizonerz and ovizers on diz prizon, da marderer be not among dem... but you did have a zuspect didn't you and itz not even prizoner zixty vive "
"if you did not tell me how you found out, i will-"
"I have ztayed too long vithin diz vollz dat dey have become my eyez and my earz. How elze do I know da way too da labyrint?
(for the third time, Javier T is shocked, he almost reaches for his arnis)
But not you inzpector javier, you zerve a diverent mazter. but tell me, vy do you konsiderr Juan Del Valle Juan da zuzpect and vy is he not?"
"so you do not know everything after all"
"I am not da flying-spaghetti monster... a god, humor me"
"it takes only one handshake for me to know the strength of a person. and most would tighten their grip a lot or a little depends on how much they want to show. but I've met someone before who had the softest handshake but whose right hand could kill anyone here. Juan has that type of handshake, and reports of his strength are consistent with my suspicion..."|
"and?"
"the blows from the murders, while from a blunt and hard object requires a credible source of energy. Especially if you consider that the murders were done on close quarters. There is barely enough space for anyone to hit with such force."
"i zee, but da fact dat he juzt came in tree veeks ago rulz him out. da marderz hav bin hapening vor 2 yearz."
"exactly"
"it vud have bin convinient vor ol ov az iv he vaz da marderer, but he iznt. i vill help u, i vil sho u da vay. but it iz not my help dat u need da mozt for diz mizzion ov yorz. der iz zomeone elz u shud bring along"
"I do not need anyone, just show me the way"
"diz igernez to mit dis demon... are you a brave idiot? hav a bit ov vizdom"
"too much wisdom breeds cowardice, i need only the directions or the key whatever"
"i zee... yu hav a dezayr tu jump into diz abyzz vitawt nowing vat iz in.. you are ayther blinded by your hunger for da glory ov victory... or ar yu merely zuizidal? an adventurer, hu vantz to go into di annown hopin dat yu vil mit death in it?
Iz der zumtin zo ugly inzayd ov yu dat yu think dat killing yurself vill kill it too? hahaha dat iz da miztake ov all zuizidals. da shado lives on.
"glory? death? suicide...is... a luxury I cannot afford, for me there is only an objective, either you do it at all costs or you don't. that is where we differ old man, i am a soldier, and you are merely a prisoner of your puzzles and prophecies. what's that saying?
'the curious merely amass knowledge, the ambitious use it' "
"zo it iz glory avter ol, but i do zenz a bit of di zuizidal in yu, Javier T. dat iz a crime yu vil have to solve ven di time kamz, i zi it Javier T. i zi da future Javier
iv it iz da objective dat matterz and nating mor den it vil not matter iv yu vil do it alone or not, i be correct?"
"...you are not wrong"
"yez, at all coztz, zo da key to da labyrinth, to da abyzz, iz none oder dan yor first zuzpekt."
"Juan Del Valle Juan??"
"yu will hav to bring him wit yu when yu go down da abyzz, da objectiv at all coztz,
vat iz he tu yu, juzt another azet like me, i be correct?
"...very well, so how do I..how do WE get there?"
"i zee no zinserity in your vords Javier, lizen vor I know not only da pazt and da prezent but alzo da future... and I zi dat Juan vil go der vit or vitout yu.. he daz not know it yet but he vil oh he vil for a different reazon, zumting vil happen, zumting yu and i vil never be able to do aniting about. he vil be here azking for da door and ven he daz goez, dat iz di only time da marderer will come out."
"you are obstructing justice, just tell me when"
"arezt me then, yoo muzt but forewarned zhould Juan die, you too vill die, dat iz written on da very treadz ov vate, and dis venture, i varn you again diz vill be your greatezt victory and your greatezt defeat IF you continue looking for da murderer. da only way not to become one, and not to become hix victim iz ztop looking for him..
better tu be a vayz coward hu iz alive dan a brave idiot hu iz ded..."
"Prophecies are for cowards. They need the certainty of signs before they do something, if they ever do anything at all. That is why you merely open the door. I.. Juan and I will go in. You talk of being alive (waves his hand around to indicate the room full of bric a brac) what is the value of a lifetime inside this prison compared to a moment with your grand daughter? would you give up large chunks of "this" life for a moment with her? "Coreset", that is her name right?
(the custodian does not respond but there is a look of recognition in his face)we have already wasted too much time, time that is not even ours! as we chit chat here, the murderer could be on his next victim"
"dat iz vy we vait. dat is the problem vit your love ztory with da law and your objectivz, yoo fail to accept dat der arr no exact equivalentz, no zertaintiez, zure i could give up live for a moment, vor yur objective, but there are no zertaintiez, dat i learned the hard vay, one zeed for a lifetime? iz that even fare? one live for a moment? vould that even be true? the zlow zlow mazinationz ov da law vill cheat me, vill cheat you of our own sacrificies...objectivez, you are merely a pawn in this game Javier, he dat runz away live to fight another day. we vait.
"Then why help us at all then?
"becoz i hav a third vizitor..
(he opens the desk with a key in it are two envelopes, takes one and hands it over to Javier T. which the latter takes)
pliz take dis to my granddaughter when you leave here.
and do not vori about hiz next victim, i already know hu it iz"
(Javier T shakes his head and leaves)
Interezting ztohry Mizteyhr Veygan.
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