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Kamal: Well I haven't yet, but if I keep treating people without proper training or tools I probably will. So who's Brad? Isabelle: He's my—a friend. Kamal: Is he a colonial? Isabelle: No, he's from earth. You know when I was living on Mamore, I thought that Earth was really cool, but it's a dump. Kamal: Well, what do you expect from a place called dirt? Isabelle: Huh? Kamal: You know, earth, like soil, dirt... didn't you ever make fun of it when you were a kid? Isabelle: No. So, are you on the lam? Kamal: So where'd you people get all these anti-infectives anyway? Isabelle: Black market. Do you have a girlfriend? Kamal: Maybe I killed her... You know, when I killed all those people in the hospital? Isabelle: Don't make fun of me, I'm not stupid. Kamal: I don't have a girlfriend. I... never really did. Isabelle: Ooh, touchy subject? Kamal: So, what comes next? Isabelle: I drop you off at Jerry's Diner, and this truck driver my dad knows will take you to New Jersey. Kamal: Thanks Isabelle, you're a good assistant. Isabelle: So, you going to tell me why you're on the lam? Kamal: Fell in love with the girlfriend of the wrong guy. Isabelle: That sounds romantic. Kamal: Not really. She went back to him. Isabelle: The slut! Kamal: It was probably the right choice. Isabelle: God, if I turned down a doctor who wanted to marry me, my mom would strangle me. Kamal: (chuckles) I'm not a doctor! Isabelle: So, why are you going to New Jersey? Kamal: Someone there's been watching me. They know something about my family. Isabelle: My family is the last thing I want to know more about. (laughs) Kamal: Yeah, well, I'm from Coral. Isabelle: Oh, geez, I-I'm sorry. Kamal: It's ok. Well, it's not ok, but it can't be fixed, so... I'm fixing what I can. I found something out this week. Isabelle: What's that? Kamal: I want to be a doctor. Isabelle: You already are. (casually in a kitchen, whistles, knock on the door) JerseyOh damn. It's open! (more knocks) Jersey: Oh for crying out... (opens door) Oh geez. It would be you. Kamal: What do you mean it would be me? Jersey: Freakin... come in. My name's Jersey. Kamal: My name is Kamal Zaman. Jersey: I know. Listen, there's someone you should meet. Kamal: You know something about my sister. Jersey: Durga! Durga(highly degraded voice) I'm here... Kamal: Who the hell is that? Durga: (voice degrading) I...can't... it's like the wrong ends of a magnet... (girl's voice) I can't! Jersey: Kamal, meet Durga. Durga, meet Kamal. Kamal: What the hell's going on here? What do you know about my sister? Durga: Nothing. Jersey: Kamal, Durga is your sister. Durga: I'm not-I'm not Yasmine. I'm merely copied from her personality matrix. Your sister was abducted into the Spartan class of 2537, but she washed out. Kamal: Washed out, what does that me-- Durga: --She died, Kamal. She was too weak and she died. Kamal: Oh my God... Durga: They took her, they trained her, they shot her full of hormones and embedded things inside her bones, and finally her body gave up and she died. Kamal: No. Durga: There's no point in being sentimental. Kamal: She didn't give up. Maybe they killed her, but she never gave up. Kamal: I can still hear your voice in there Yasmine! You never gave up in your life! Durga: What did you... Jersey...! Jersey: Hey, take it easy with that stuff pal! Durga is herself, she's nobody else. Kamal: The hell she is. You know what they say - you don't get to choose your family. She's stuck with me. Jersey: Kamal, this - you and me and Coral forever stuff, didn't work so great on Sophie either, did it? (Kamal attacks Jersey) Jersey: Ow Kamal! Come on! Durga: Stop it you two. (wreckless fighting) Jersey: If Sophie could see you now, she'd think you were a real he-man wouldn't she? Kamal: Is this how you get your jollies?! Spying on people?! Jersey: Not like you! Durga: Stop it! (Durga...stops the fight) Kamal: He started it. Jersey: I was eating. And he hit me... in the head. Kamal: At least I don't spy on other people. Jersey: Well you tried to kill me with a lamp. Kamal: You punched me in the neck! Jersey: You tried to kill me with a lamp! Jersey: I don't get how just a butterfly clamp-- (smack) Jersey: Ow! Kamal: Quit whining... Jersey: You know your bedside manner leaves something to be-- Kamal: --shut up! Jersey: Right back atcha doc... How the hell am I going to explain this to my mom?! Kamal: I'll pay for the damage. Jersey: With what? Poker chips? Oh that's great, I'll send her for a week in Atlantic city. We can collect a complete set of dishes with dancing girls on them. Kamal: Well, I guess there's no point in being offline any more. (signal/online) What the hell is with you? If anyone should be upset-- Jersey: --(sounds of disbelief)-- Kamal: Of course Jersey: --This was... her favourite lamp! Kamal: You're jealous. Jersey: I've got nothing to be jealous about. Kamal: Except sharing Durga. Jersey: Yeah, with a self-righteous creep who thinks he can work the chatter. Kamal: Well, look at it from my perspective. Jersey: What... Kamal: My sister's spending her time with a sullen punk kid who wouldn't tell the government one of their top class AI's has gone, because then he wouldn't have his favourite toy any more! Durga: I told him not to. Jersey: Oh I asked her-- Kamal: You need to contribute to the war effort, hero. Durga: Leave him alone. Kamal: I don't think I will. A top class AI costs what, the price of a destroyer? What if that mind - your mind, Yasmine - could have made a difference at Coral. Durga: That's not fair. Kamal: You know, fair is not something I care about so much any more. Durga: Kamal, we need your help. Jersey: (a glass crashes) We do not need his help. Durga: Jersey, I don't waste assets. Kamal: Help doing what? Durga: There was nothing you could do to save your sister. Nothing more you could have done to save your parents. Kamal: Our parents. Durga: But I can give you something more precious than you can possibly imagine. Kamal: You - Durga? Or you - Yasmine? Durga: (quietly) Alright, both of us. Kamal: Most of precious was on Coral for me, Yasmine. And the rest, left me standing at a bus stop standing outside of Oakland. What are you going to give me? Durga: Another chance to save me. Another chance to save the world.
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