Genocidal Organ Page #2

defenseless player with your helmet, correct?

--Yeah, too overprotective. --lt's a very

dangerous move called "helmet-to-helmet."

--Let's just hope Smith is all right.

--He's dead, but I don't feel anything.

--Let's just hope Smith is all right.

I couldn't feel anything

even when I killed him.

Really?

Lately I have these dreams.

Nightmares, maybe.

Me too, actually.

They get me thinking...

Maybe there's still

something there in our brains

even if we're too overprotected

to feel it anymore.

Alex talked about that.

Yeah. "Hell."

Maybe we'll end up like him someday.

I'll foul out before then.

You're fine with that?

It's just my job.

Yes.

Yeah, he's with me.

The Pentagon?

Right now, sir?

Goodbye.

We've been summoned.

--Ah, Smith has stood up!

--Yes he has.

I guess he's okay. And the crowd

is going wild in response.

What's next for you?

Antiterrorism data aggregation. You?

The Libyan Liberalization Committee, I think.

Captain Clavis Shepherd, I believe?

Yes, sir!

You saved the US from a crisis.

I'd like to offer my thanks.

Yes, sir...

Ah, yes.

Come right in.

That was Erica Sales from Eugene & Krupps.

The private military company?

She's quite the saleslady, too.

You two!

What are you waiting for? Get in here.

PTSD, sir?

Yes. That was the experts' consensus.

They discovered a flaw in Alex's pre-mission

Battle Emotion Adaptive Regulation.

"Flaw"?

I can't go into the exact numbers here,

but they've admitted a mistake

in the optimization value.

You're saying the emotional regulation

designed to prevent PTSD caused PTSD?

I'm sorry for the worry this must cause you.

We've already planned measures

to prevent a recurrence.

Your decision under the circumstances

has been 100% affirmed.

But that's not--

Did you want us to discipline Captain Shepherd?

N-No, sir...

You have a new mission.

The American, I presume.

Yes.

John Paul. I know

you're familiar with the name.

The lntermedia Group

coordinates image strategy

for countries and large corporations.

Three years ago, it leapt to fame

when it put Somalia's economy on track

by getting investments

from international companies.

At the time, John Paul was in charge

of signing companies as clients,

and he juggled several at once.

His accomplishments were soon recognized,

and he became aide to the Cultural

Publicity Ministers of several nations.

And then the genocide started.

Yes. It seems you already

understand the situation.

You're saying he's at the center

of the nonstop political chaos

happening around the globe.

Just six months.

Peaceful countries he visits

descend into civil war in just six months,

and eventually genocide starts.

But you people knew, didn't you?

You knew this before I was

ever ordered to assassinate John Paul!

That's right.

We attempted his arrest several times

before we asked Special Operations

Command to assassinate him.

"We" as in who?

The CIA. Foreign matters

fall under our purview.

So basically, we have to

risk our lives to fix your mistakes.

Watch your tongue.

Apologies, sir. But if they hadn't

screwed the pooch, Alex wouldn't be dead!

You're quite right.

But in our defense, at that point,

the strength of our suspicions was,

"He seems to have been

involved in several atrocities

in a manner as yet undetermined."

The chaos spread like wildfire

while we obtained the intel that

convinced us John Paul was the source.

You want us to believe one man

is leading mass murders around the globe?

Yeah, right.

Why have I been killing? Please, tell me!

Wh)' have I been killing?!

So, why are we here?

A trailing op.

We think John Paul is hiding out

in the Czech Republic.

You're telling us to play spy?

As you know, the main mission

of our Special Operations I Detachment

is to respond

to crimes against humanity:

To contain genocides by killing

whoever commands the armies responsible.

But if John Paul is out there somewhere

fomenting mass murder right now,

we need to know where.

Lucie Skroupova.

She teaches private Czech lessons in Prague.

Three days ago, John Paul met with her.

It was the first time

in our two years of surveillance.

John Paul's woman, eh?

Could he have already

left the Czech Republic?

We don't know. The man never raises

any flags during airport ID checks.

So we're watching the broad, betting on

the chance that he'll come back... right?

We're appointing you to the DIA,

as well as temporarily assigning you

to the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Intelligence Department.

You're the only ones

who can stop another genocide.

Even as we speak,

John Paul could be planning

to plunge another country into Hell.

John Paul's profile is

a crossword puzzle steadily being filled in.

We figure the suits would've been

better off telling us everything on Day One.

John Paul lost his family in Sarajevo.

His wife and six-year-old daughter

went for a simple sightseeing trip,

and in a split second they

turned into ash at the bottom of a crater.

My ID trace puts him at the home of

a student named Lucie Skroupova that day.

So:
an affair.

A month later,

he visited the Sarajevo Crater

as a family member of the victims.

Soon after, he quit MIT.

It was six months later

that he joined the lntermedia Group.

To spread the word about

his client countries' plights,

he arranged receptions

for famous bureaucrats

and got cabinet members

guest spots on American news shows.

The company started thinking

very highly of him.

Here's the part of his career

the suits wanted to hide.

He was an export fully authorized

by the US government.

Basically, at that Pentagon meeting

there were more than a few people

who knew our friend John.

Probably because of the genocides

in every country he managed,

he was compelled to leave the company.

And he dropped off the map

at this shopping mall in Prague.

Apparently European info specialists say

that people who disappear in Prague

have zero traceability.

"Apparently"? Not exactly concrete intel.

But the fact remains that

John Paul disappeared in this city.

Twice, in fact. Three years ago,

and seven days ago.

"Waiting for John Paul," eh?

This is like a Kafka play.

If you're alluding to Waiting for Godot,

that's a Beckett play.

And Godot never shows up, so the people

waiting just talk about him forever.

Try not to jinx us, okay?

Anything absurd is Kafka to me.

True, Czech may be more difficult

to learn than other languages...

...Mr. Bishop.

While Czech is a Slavic language,

like Russian or Croatian,

it takes their trademark inflection-heavy

nature to quite an extreme.

The "over 200 inflections

for one word" thing, right?

That's the most drastic example.

But in my experience,

the difficulty seems to lie in its

free word order and its pronunciation.

People like you who move here for work

all seem to struggle with pronunciation.

I see.

Lucie Skroupova makes her living

teaching Czech to foreigners.

Students learn the language from her

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