Case #29: Video

[19centconstable]

[It's an extreme close up of a Victorian constable! George has accidentally turned the camera on himself while picking up his communicator in an attempt to figure out what the strange device is. He looks a little older; a little stockier, because no one escapes the ravages of aging, and 1898 has been kind of a stressful year, what with all of the meth, and Draculas, and outwitting the American government. All of the brass on his uniform is also particularly shiny, and he's wearing a pair of white dress gloves and an expression of general confusion.

And then you can see it slowly dawn on him. And then there's a dizzying shot of the floor flying past as George hurries to make sure that...

Yes. The toilette remains.]

Oh my goodness I'm back.

[There's the sound of someone flopping back onto a bed, and a close up of a quilt. The quilt has the spotlight for a good few minutes, until George remembers the communicator is still running. Normal view!]

Could anybody tell me when it is here?

Comments

Re: [Private] [Video]

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

Yeah see but some guys don't know when to stop. Like me for instance. There's nothing wrong with it mind you but uh..

[He scratches his head] I agree with you about the bribes though. No matter what people might think of me on this damn boat I never took a goddamn bribe.

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[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

You know, I had actually begun to worry about my waist-line here because the food is so rich and plentiful and I don't get as much regular exercise. I was going to ask Mr. Spinola what one does in a gymnasium. Specifically, I mean. I know generally how one works.

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[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

[Hoffman looks amused] They don't have gyms in the Victorian times?

I'll show you. I go pretty regularly. I used to be pretty damn fit too. Lupin ah..

[Frown] Lupin insisted I go. Anger problems.

Re: [Private] [Video]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

No, we do, I've just never felt the need to join one. Because I run and lift things quite a lot on the job, you see.

I can see how that would be helpful.

[Private] [Video]

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

...Well so did I but you know.

...You ever had to go hand-to-hand with a guy?

Re: [Private] [Video]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Yes, of course.

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[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

So you go to the gym for that. Get stronger and practice fighting but mostly get stronger. Best cops go to seed even after awhile.

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[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Boxing, you mean? I just don't feel comfortable hitting someone for no good reason. They'd have to commit a crime, or be a cad.

Re: [Private] [Video]

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

...Cad?

..what's a Cad.

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[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

A heartless womanizer.

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[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

...You take girls really seriously huh? It's refreshing.

Re: [Private] [Video]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I was raised by aunts. A lot of aunts. I could tell you about all of them sometime when you have several free hours.

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[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

I remember hearing about aunts. It can't be worse then being raised by social workers in the system.

[Hoffman absentmindedly massages his hand as he talks, looking down at his fingers and back at George]

Kerry'd like you. Perez too probably.

Re: [Private] [Video]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

The system? I don't think being raised by them was bad at all.

Oh?

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[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

Raised by the foster care system.

My dad killed my mother. [Hoffman's tone is serious] And was arrested. We had no family to take us in so...I was raised by a bunch of shrinks paid by the state.

Re: [Private] [Video]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

At a boy's home?

Was...the drink to blame?

Re: [Private] [Video]

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

...No.

[pause] I...threw a fit every time they tried to split my little sister and I. They thought I had emotional problems for awhile.

[Except that he does]






Yeah. He was...yes. The drink was to blame.

Re: [Private] [Video]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Detective Murdoch's history is surprisingly similar.

Re: [Private] [Video]

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

..Your mentor?

What's his story? If you have the time.

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[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not sure it's for me to say entirely, but his mother was also killed by his father, and he was raised in an orphanage by Jesuits.

Although, later it did turn out that his father wasn't actually responsible for her death. But he has a younger sister...or, well, had. She's passed. She was a nun. And he has a half-brother who is a sergeant in the North-West Mounted.