11 BRAINS; video, joint with blaine

[livable]

[ When the video starts, the first visible thing is Blaine in the background over the sight of a desk. The desk has a load of files all over it, spread out so that they’re visible by the camera woman’s hand. Blaine’s stretching his arms out in a mocking mimic of a portrait in the background, trying to imitate the pose the woman in it is doing. A few seconds later (just enough time to roll her eyes off-screen), the video pans down to the desk to show the documents in clearer focus. The data probably looks innocuous at first glance, but an extended viewing would reveal some serious inconsistencies with the data that the company whose header is at the top of the documents released to the public. Health+, the company associated with the recent double-homicide mentioned in the paper, had its name all over these documents. The documents show evidence that they hid studies that showed results that didn’t rule in their favor to push out drugs to make millions of extra cash off despite the results showing potential negative reactions and just about all of them saying further testing is needed before release- some of the data indicating as many as ten years that the product would’ve been off the shelf.

The camera lifts up and turns around, and there’s a face that some may recognize as Olivia Moore, the local pathologist at Genessia’s Hospital. Only in this video, she looked different. She looked… lively. The porcelain pallor that normally accentuated her features was full of color, her eyes were bright, and even her golden blonde hair looked like she’d walked straight out of the curly section of a salon style guide. And her expression? Far more enthusiastic than she’s exhibited in months. ]

This is Olivia Moore. I’m in the office of Riley Eval, CEO of that pharmaceuticals company, Health+. These are memos directly from her desk. I’m pretty sure this is enough to put the entire board away for years and get their products pulled from the shelves before someone gets hurt. So if anyone like, say, a Guardian were looking for a ton of evidence, here she blows.

[ In the background, Blaine turns a heel and looks at her - then the camera. ]

Are you openly broadcasting that we broke into an office?

[ Liv’s eyes roll up for a moment and she looks over her shoulder at Blaine. ]

We’re privately investigating. We had the door codes, we didn’t break in anywhere.

Riiight. That’s why we avoided cameras.

We avoided cameras so that the company didn’t see us exposing them and stop us before we actually could. This is for the greater good, Blaine. We can’t do good in the world if we aren’t willing to put our first foot forward. [ Maybe that was Angela’s brain talking. Maybe it was Liv’s insane amount of intrepidity finally coming out to pull her out of her own funk. It was hard to tell. ] Now stop trying to confess to crimes we aren’t committing on camera, I’m still filming.

You know what you can’t do good in the world with? That styrofoam your lunch was in. Think about the world, Liv. The world. Do you know how much energy you’re wasting broadcasting our illegal detectiving?

Legal. Private. Investigations. [ Okay, before she kills him. ] My point has been made, and I’m never taking you out for lunch again unless you forget about the styrofoam. [ And the video flickers off, before Blaine can retort again. ]

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[Audio]

[aurabble]

I'm almost certain that once you started broadcasting it was no longer a private investigation.

Why is an ex-funeral director helping you out?

Why didn't you tell me you knew someone so hot, Blaine?

Are you dating? Is that why?

[Audio]

[livable]

We're not dating, I would rather take a bullet to the head.

[ Now that that's clear- ]

It was private while we were investigating. Now it's sharing time.

[Audio]

[aurabble]

Come on, Blaine's a great guy. I'm not saying you should go out, but a bullet to the head? Isn't that kind of severe?

What happens when they catch you?

[Audio]

[livable]

[ on the one hand, no. On the other hand, Liv is well aware that Blaine tends to use the zombie apocalypse as a threat to keep Liv and Co. from trying to kill him. While she wouldn't kill him here because there wouldn't be much point, social murder was another story. If she could convince Blaine that she wasn't a threat, maybe his refound hunger for brains wouldn't end the same way it did back home. ] He slept with my best friend and then broke her heart. Whatever you think of him here, I'm not going to argue with it, but I would not date him. Ever. [ It's the nicest way she can explain her statement. Even if Blaine doesn't necessarily know it happened yet. ]

They don't because we're leaving and I'm in disguise so unless they get access to the network, they have no proof.

[Audio]

[pathosis]

I don't know why she's broadcasting. We could've took this right to the authorities like reasonable people.

I had insight to the case, it slipped my mind, and I don't think she likes me all that much. We're dating in spirit like all good buddy cop team-ups do.

[Audio]

[aurabble]

Yeah but where would all the risks be in that?

This is the last thing that should have slipped your mind but okay. You have a badge?

[Audio]

[pathosis]

Some risks are too stressful, man. It's, like, bad for your chi.

Yeah, sorry. I should've mentioned my roommate. Nope. I'm a consultant.

[Video]

[tonytonychopper]

[Wait... He's going to lean in and put his eye really close to the screen as he tries to scan what he can see of those papers.]

Hm... Is there a list of all the drugs they created?

[Someone's going to start examining them for counter-treatments, all those built up side effects...]

[Video]

[livable]

Yeah. If you play back the video it was the third paper from the left.

[ She made sure to get clear shots of everything, so she can tell him where to pause on the recorded video. She's on her way out already. ]

Re: [Video]

[tonytonychopper]

Ah! Thank you! I can at least start on a replacement drug for most of these, as well as potential treatments for the...

[Give him a moment, he just came from a similar situation. When ethics died ages ago and left massive numbers of innocent victims, real doctors tended to get pissed off.]

Affected.

[Video]

[livable]

Hopefully we'll be able to stop this before any long-term damage is done and I won't be seeing any of your patients on my table.

[ Hi she works in the basement of Genessia hospital, your handy-dandy morgue attendant! ]

[youfool]

A cheer for justice! A boo for your lukewarm companion.

[livable]

He's on an environmentalist kick right now. He won't be half as bad once he calms down about the styrofoam. I mean, he has a point, but the styrofoam is the least of our worries when there are street kids in Attleton who haven't been introduced to the Big Brother program.

Video; Private

[rulerofme]

[Sigh.]

I swear, I take my eye off you two for a few moments, and you go and investigate criminal activity.

Video; Private

[livable]

Watch out, I donated money to the Children's Home and I signed up for an Out of the Darkness Walk to help raise money to combat depression next week too. You've really got your hands full.

Video; Private

[rulerofme]

I'll try to stop you from breaking the bank with your donations. So was it the brain that made you investigate that guy or was it your own sense of duty and justice?

Video; Private

[livable]

[ Thanks for the tough questions there, buddy. Liv squints her eyes just slightly as she looks like she's trying to discern which was which. ]

Both? I mean, this.. is the kind of thing that's kept me going back home. Here, I didn't exactly have a partner in the police department. Angela's brain is really intense on the good-deed-every-day practice, and this... is what got her killed. Also the other guy's brain probably isn't the guy who killed her if Blaine's behavior is any evidence.

[ She may have fed the car crash guy to Blaine thinking he might be able to help. Two brains are better than one? ]

I hope it was me, even if Angela had to push me to get here.

[Audio]

[nofortunateone]

I think that's just called trespassing but it's still illegal.

[Says that guy who's broken more laws than there are states to break them in.]

What's this for?

[Toby doesn't actually care about legality and it's interesting to see Blaine. It's someone that Liv's mentioned and Toby is a little curious.]

[Audio]

[livable]

Hey, they hired me. It's not that illegal.

[ Granted, she's going into areas she shouldn't have been and she did get hired solely so she could get access but whatever. ]

Just doing the right thing.

[Audio]

[nofortunateone]

Why are you doing the right thing?

[He's realized that he has friends and now he cares and it's annoying. Toby dislikes worrying about people.]

Is that your roommate?

[Audio]

[livable]

Because this is what I need to do to make a difference, to accept who I am. This is what I did back home, except I had a detective and a boss who believed in me and made it a lot easier to jump into things.

Yes. He had some information I needed to get into the right areas of the building. [ So she was just breaking the rules more than trespassing. ]

[video]

[offwithhishat]

[ That... had been a lot to take in. The illegal stuff was enough, but then there was Liv looking completely different and Blaine worrying about styrofoam. Something about all of that was really odd.

It was kind of disturbing how much more Liv resembled Tinkerbell when she wasn't doing the goth thing. ]

Are... the two of you okay?

[ Because he really didn't know what else to say. He probably looked a little confused. ]

[video]

[livable]

Never better, personally.

[ Maybe she can even make Blaine think the same way. It'll be like a Big Sister program. That's totally charitable right? From crimelord to charitylord. ]

[video]

[offwithhishat]

Can I ask what prompted all of this? Not to say you didn't do something amazing because you did. It just seems sudden.

[ And a little off? Somehow. ]

[video]

[livable]

Don't let the makeup fool you, this is.. more who I am. I had to bring Blaine alone because I needed his help, but back home, I used to help a detective investigate homicides. It's a way I can make a difference and do something to give back, and I finally decided that I can make that difference in other ways.