TM 255 : BOO! How would you go about scaring someone?
I'm great at scaring people. That's my assigned role - I'm the looming wall of doom that gets in your face when you've done the wrong thing. I can't be reasoned with, I can't be escaped, and I'm just not going to go away. I'm the end of the line.
I get to lay out the options for you - tell you how you can say it went down, maybe save yourself that way, maybe make it not so bad, but it's still bad. I tell you what the lawyers are going to do, what a jury's going to think, maybe what those animals down in holding or - god forbid - upstate are going to to when I throw you in with them. Maybe I bring up the needle; if you're in line for the hot shot out of this world, I'll make sure you know it.
The scariest thing about me, though, is that the entire time you're sweating out your sphincter-clenching panic, your mind scrabbling for hope like a trapped rat, the whole damn time from the moment you see my face and you know it's over - you know I love my job.
I get to lay out the options for you - tell you how you can say it went down, maybe save yourself that way, maybe make it not so bad, but it's still bad. I tell you what the lawyers are going to do, what a jury's going to think, maybe what those animals down in holding or - god forbid - upstate are going to to when I throw you in with them. Maybe I bring up the needle; if you're in line for the hot shot out of this world, I'll make sure you know it.
The scariest thing about me, though, is that the entire time you're sweating out your sphincter-clenching panic, your mind scrabbling for hope like a trapped rat, the whole damn time from the moment you see my face and you know it's over - you know I love my job.