The Experiment Page #4

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you're gonna have a serious problem.

- They're not guards.

- No, they're guards all right.

And them up there,

they're getting exactly what they want.

I suggest you stop protecting your friend.

What's right is right, man.

Last thing a man wants to be in the pen

is right.

Dudes, they...

They start digging in

and getting all righteous then.

That only leads to one place.

Go along to get along, man.

Whatever fire you got in your belly,

you're best to let it go.

Trust me.

Let it go.

All I know

is homie lost his sh*t back there.

- It was just a show.

- For you, maybe.

- Half those f***ers, they were ready to go.

- They weren't gonna do anything.

How well do you know them?

The a**holes outnumber us, for one.

If they wanted to take the advantage,

they could.

Us out here in the middle

of f***ing nowhere, we're on our own.

The experimenters,

they wouldn't let anything happen.

How well do you know them?

Seventy-seven, he's the ringleader.

Either way, if it keeps going like this,

someone's gonna throw down.

Look, guys, guys.

If anyone gets hurt, this experiment is over.

None of us will get paid.

Well, we gotta put the clamps on this thing

once and for all then.

What're you thinking?

You wanna know how to reach these guys?

How?

You scare 'em.

Comfortable?

Helweg?

Come on...

The prisoners, they listen to you.

For some reason they look to you

like you're the leader.

I got news for you.

In here,

you're the leader of sh*t.

This place, it belongs to us.

It belongs to us.

Hey, there are all kinds of things

that we could do to you

to make you hip to that fact.

So, do we have the proper respect

for authority now?

F*** you, you sick f***.

This stuff is going right through me.

- Saddle up, gentlemen!

- F***!

You want to send a message?

Then send a message. Saddle up.

Saddle up!

What the hell...

You okay?

That was colossally f***ed up.

I mean, you are sh*t-ass nuts,

you know that?

And that's a good thing, Barris.

The light, it didn't come on.

They saw it, and it's not coming on.

We did what we did, we sent a message,

but it never leaves this place.

I got something to say.

If anything happens like that again,

anything at all,

I'm out of here.

You make a unilateral decision like that,

it could cost the rest of us 100 grand.

I don't care, sir.

Let it go.

Scenario.

Someone harms someone you love.

Rapes them, kills them.

The law fails to prosecute.

This person is free.

There is absolutely nothing you can do.

- Would you consider that justice?

- I don't think on those terms.

Justice is what keeps us safe

as a society. Ordered.

Well, justice is... Well, it starts wars.

An eye for an eye for an eye.

It takes a turning of the cheek

for this species to evolve.

So, you're the one who knows

what it's going to take

for the human species to evolve.

Just regurgitating what people

a lot smarter than me have been saying

for a long, long time.

Hey.

Look what I found. Take it.

That ought to boost your blood sugar.

No, it won't.

Yeah, there's a lot of carbohydrates in there.

It's like the world's cheapest bread.

It's going to turn to sugar. Trust me.

Yeah, it won't turn to insulin, though.

I thought you didn't need insulin.

Fibbed.

If they wouldn't let me bring it down here,

I figured I could tough it out.

Jesus Christ.

- Benjy...

- Fifty-one.

Listen, you can't play around with this.

I got to let them know immediately.

I mean, they need to know.

I got to get you out of here.

No.

You don't understand. You could die.

Not if I get the insulin.

Why are you doing this?

Flying Man is a fraud.

Don't say that.

Yeah. It's stupid. It's a stupid, shitty, fat lie.

Just like me.

He's just a man that flies.

I need this. I need to stop being a fraud.

I need for once to have something

to show for myself.

Please, 77. Please.

- What the f*** you doing?

- Jesus!

Nothing.

- Don't beat your sh*t off next to me.

- I'm not beating my sh*t. F*** off.

I'll give you a thousand of my own money.

He should just go.

Listen, man, there's insulin in his bag.

Can you get it?

You know that's not allowed.

I'll give you two. Two thousand.

Two thousand, man. He needs it.

I don't need the money.

Twenty-two. Get up.

Captain wants to see you.

Lucky for us, there's no cameras in here.

What?

All right, so if we're going to do this,

you can't tell anybody.

The f*** are you talking about?

All I want is a blow job. That's it.

No, no, no, no.

Come on. Just get down on your knees.

Yeah. I'm going to go back to my cell...

First, you get down on your knees, all right?

All right?

I want to go back to my cell.

You will soon enough.

But first you're going to suck my dick.

Suck it yourself.

Get down on your knees.

Get down on your f***ing knees.

What's going on in here?

Nothing.

What is that prisoner doing out of his cell?

He had something to tell me

about number 77.

He didn't want to say it in front of the others.

- Seventy-seven?

- Yeah.

- Is that true?

- Yeah, that's true.

No, I'm asking him. Is that true?

It's true. It's true.

Barris. Thank God I found you.

You got to come quick.

See?

Why?

What were you doing back there?

Nothing.

I need you to empty your pockets

for me then.

Empty your pockets, Bosch.

Empty that pocket right there.

You know that nothing from the outside

world enters into this cell block.

- You know that, right?

- I mean, I was...

Quiet. Shut up.

They're trying to get you to undermine me.

I know you would never do that.

Who asked you to do that?

You tell me and all will be forgiven.

Who told you?

We need to talk later about this.

Later.

As you can see,

I'm a reasonable man.

I'm not the monster that you

somehow conjured up in your head.

I've been given a position,

didn't ask for it.

In some ways it would've been easier

if I was just a prisoner.

- Like you.

- I doubt that very much.

You broke the rules again, 77.

The guy could've died

if he didn't get his insulin...

"The guy could've died

if he didn't get his insulin."

"Guy could've died

if he didn't get his insulin."

Did you hear that?

A guy could've died

if he didn't get his insulin!

Really?

When you speak, can you hear yourself?

What do you think is on

the other side of those cameras?

We are being watched

24 hours a day by people

who know what they are doing.

Do you think that if there was even a chance,

just the littlest bit of a chance,

that somebody'd die,

that they would let it happen?

He's perfectly safe, your friend.

They will keep him perfectly safe.

When this is over,

you know what you ought to do?

No.

You ought to take this money,

take a little time off

from whatever it is that you do.

Check into a nice, clean mental facility

where experts can properly diagnose

what exactly is wrong with you.

Maybe you could suggest to me

a mental facility,

because obviously you're running around

in a mental facility inside of your head.

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