The Steam Experiment Page #4

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Tell Clark I'm gonna book him

on suspicion of homicide.

I'll run his prints.

XXX:

Let's go back

to where we left off.

Jessie dies.

Were you having any trouble

following the story, detective?

No, I follow the story. One thing

I can't see here though.

Jessie's killed by a guy

with a nail gun, right?

Ok, so who killed her?

You?

Because Jessie was supposed to have

died by a natural human reaction.

A reaction that is

global warming, right?

So that doesn't add up.

Which show that your plan Jimmy,

in of itself is f***ed up.

You know, the mother

of all experiments,

is not airtight, you know,

It's not tight.

All this sh*t about

"I gotta talk to Walter,

I wanna be

on the front page now,

"I wanna set everyone free".

is all sh*t,

cause it's not happening now.

It never was happening now.

And if it was happening now,

how the f*** did you know?

How the f*** did you now...

Jessie got hit with

a f***ing nail gun, Jimmy? How?

I don't know.

You don't know?

I'm f***ing all over you.

You lock 6 people

in a steam room?

Yeah, before the construction

began at the Grand Hotel.

And they're dead in there,

for months Jimmy. They're dead.

Now look at me

when I'm talking to you.

Where're the bodies?

Where're the bodies?

F*** it.

Is there a possibility here,

none of this ever happened?

You're not even Jimmy Pettis.

You're just a whacko.

Who are you?

Are you Raymond Gregory?

You're... uh, delusional,

you understand that?

Jimmy, all this convoluted,

concocted theory...

about global warming, man.

Give it a rest.

It's over.

It's over.

Your life's work...

was pissed upon,

man, it's been trashed.

Your existence, it was rendered,

a f***ing lie.

A lie.

You kill six people?

You don't qualify.

You do it in your imagination.

Either I killed them months ago

detective, or I'm insane and...

I made it all up,

make up your mind.

I mean, when I said earlier...

that you're not qualified

to... handle this case,

I made a mistake, that was a

gross understatement.

It pees me to see you all excited

to find out who may have killed Jessie.

And maybe I have an accomplice,

maybe I don't.

It pees me even more that you

can't keep your pee-head on...

the bigger picture,

there is a bigger picture here.

I mean, I'm only continuing

with the experiment...

to prove

what happens to people...

during the chaos,

because of the heat.

The lifes of these

hostages are of no value.

You have a job,

that is your bigger picture...

To get Walter to put

my story in the paper.

And, I'll level with you, this..

You've gotta do

better than this...

fake social security.

Oh, you're gonna level with me?

Then I'm gonna level with you.

I'm gonna tell you exactly

what I told you in Walter's office.

You give me the full names and

locations of these hostages, ok?

Then you get

your 15 minutes of fame.

You don't give me the proof.

You don't get your headline.

I really don't give a f***.

I really don't.

About global warming.

Greenhouse gas.

Jack, I gotta talk to you.

The psychiatrist called,

and he sent this over.

In the last 6 months

professor Raymond Gregory...

has confessed

to his psychiatrist...

every major assassination

in the United States.

He played you, Jack.

He escaped from the mental ward

at state hospital.

So he's professor

Raymond Gregory.

- I surmised that.

- Oh.

Well, they're sending

somebody to pick him up.

So what does it prove? It proves

he's a nutcase, that's all it proves.

He still could be

holding people hostage,

he still could've killed them.

He's too precise,

I told you that.

He knows every detail

of how these people died.

Jack!

The f***ing guy's a frootloop.

So, what if he's a frootloop.

Give me 30 minutes, I'll crack him.

Jack, I talked

to his psychiatrist,

he's schizophrenic

and he's highly delusional.

You understand that?

You got it? It's over.

Now, get your ass over

to Fletcher street.

Your shrink called.

Sent the paperwork.

Says you confessed already,

about killing JFK, hm?

You killed John Lennon?

Did you try to shoot

the Pope in Rome, Jimmy?

This case is closed.

I gotta run.

It's back to the luny bin, pal.

Call me crazy

if it makes you feel better.

I'm always gonna miss you.

You have a nice life, hm?

I'll tell you

where the bodies are.

What is happening?

Oh, God!

Margaret was...

she was unstable anyway.

But you see detective,

millions of people

will follow... her direction.

That's why the experiment

is so valuable.

Many, many will kill

themselves...

rather then to face man's

inhumanity to man.

When the time comes,

on that faithful day.

What happened to you, Raymond?

What possessed you

to become Jimmy?

The teaching was

the greatest joy in my life,

to fill a young mind

with... principles, ideas.

The excitement of...

of the... purity...

of... the potential,

of facing...

the new world a better world

than that we live in now.

My father was so proud.

I was top in my class,

and he... he...

But was sensitive, sensitive.

He was sensitive and he knew that...

once my theories became...

clearer,

and the radical clarity

that was my... fate...

to... expound, he...

had to take the derision...

the humiliation, I lived with.

But... but, my father,

it killed him. They killed him.

And they killed Raymond Gregory.

Mh'hm...

I could still

save the world, detective.

What's taking

that ambulance so long?

Yes.

You'll see.

You... uh,

you wanna tell me, hm?

About what happened

to the last three?

Look at me.

Look at me.

Why... would somebody do this?

My mama died when I was

She was singing...

and then she hit the floor.

That was the last day

I ever saw my daddy sober.

Look at me, Catherine.

Look at me.

Look at me.

Christopher, hold me.

What're you laughing at, Grant?

Me?

Laughing at a joke,

Christopher.

I know why I'm gonna die, Pettis.

Good old karma.

The only thing I'm worried about

this joke might be on me.

Might be on me.

I think there's a joke

going on, Christopher.

And I think you're telling it.

I think maybe she's helping you

tell it, Christopher.

They say, I ran a red light.

Bam!

Hey, that's like a fraight train.

Two of those boys.

They died.

It's not over, Grant.

We can still make it.

You are so stupid.

We are still alive.

You keep telling yourself that.

You are so full of sh*t.

Wait a minute. He can see us,

and he can hear us.

Doesn't that mean that there's

a camera in here? Somewhere?

If he can see us,

where is the camera?

Pettis! Is your buddy down here?

Your old buddy Christopher.

And his girlfriend Catherine.

Huh?

How long you guys known each other?

You and Catherine?

You didn't just meet here,

did you? I don't think so, buddy.

Five minutes ago she says

there might be a camera in here.

It's gotta be somewhere,

where they put the camera.

And then... Ah, you found

a camera in here.

I've got something.

Coincidence?

- Give me something.

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