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- MR. GONE NARRATES:
Most of us inhabit at least

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two worlds...the real world,
where we're at the mercy of

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circumstance, and the world
within, the unconscious,

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a safe place where we can
escape.

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The Maxx shifts between these
worlds...against his will.

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Here, homeless, he lives
in a box in an alley.

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The only one who really cares
for him is Julie Winters,

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a freelance social worker.

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But in Pangaea, the other world,
he rules the Outback

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and is the protector of Julie,
his Jungle Queen.

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- There, he cares for her.

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But he always ends up
back in the real world.

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And me, old Mr. Gone...

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Only I can see that
the secret which unites them

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could destroy them.

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I could be helpful.

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Ah, screw it!

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I think I'll have some fun
with them, first.

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- MAXX: That's right,
you little bastard, run.

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You'll lead me right to him.

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The pounding in my head is like
an ice pick, but I can't stop.

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One minute I see Julie Winters
dressed as the Leopard Queen,

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and insane, the next,
I'm back here still chasing

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this little monster.

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The gawkers glare at me since,
to them, the Isz looks like

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a 96-year-old grandmother.

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But I know that it is a tool
of the evil sorcerer, Mr. Gone.

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He is a serial rapist
and murderer who will destroy

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the city unless I stop him.

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Of course, maybe they're all
staring at me 'cause I might

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have just said all that
out loud.

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Ooops.

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- Crap, it happened again.

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But this time I've got to keep
my city memories...

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Remember all the people who'll
be mutilated or killed

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if I don't find him...

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Remember...

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Uh...

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Why am I chasing this Isz?

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Well, I probably had a good
reason.

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- The world flickers about me
a I run, passing by like

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the spokes of a spinning wheel,
light and dark,

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real and unreal.

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Suddenly, even a passing
Air Whale has two forms

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and two meanings.

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No, I am the Maxx.

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I must not give in to these
fantasies of weakness...

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doubtless, this is some charm
laid on me by an evil shaman,

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evil sorcerer.

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Only the chase has meaning
and the Isz cannot match me.

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I almost have it.

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Spears!

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A Spotted Seussadon dies
instantly dragged down to some

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stygian pit.

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But I survive and triumph.

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- I cannot remember why I...

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- Huh?

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A thousand mindless panicked
Isz swimming from the ground

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like moles.

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I will not be taken.

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I am the Maxx.

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I am...

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The world's starting to change
to gray...

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Must fight...

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Must...

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No!

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They are all dead.

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All.

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I have killed all.

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Huh?

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I have penetrated to the wet,
soft, white, squishy, but true

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heart of darkness.

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But why?

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Something about the Leopard
Queen...

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A magician...

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And a strange, dirty land...

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Filled with cities and crime...

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Crime only I can fight.

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I can't think about that now.

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Damn, the net was too fast
for me.

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I feel myself dragged
underground to some desperate

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fate, but I will be free
for I am the...

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- Mommy.

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- No!

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I hate waking up to someone
else's nightmare.

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I especially hate waking up
in someone else's bathroom.

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And what's worse...this bathroom
has leaky pipes.

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- Hm, why do I know this
is a bathroom?

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I am the King of the wild
places.

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I shouldn't know anything about
pipes and gaskets and traps

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and valves, but I do...just like
I know that dream was not

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my dream.

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It belonged to the Leopard
Queen...in some way I can't

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explain.

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Hmmm, the rod goes up
and the water stops.

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The rod goes down and...
Ugh!

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- A little confused by modern
technology, hm, Br'er Lappin?

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Boo!

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Pretty neat mask, right?

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I use it to frighten the natives
away from my Isz harvesting

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operations.

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I not only need to trap those
little buggers, but enough large

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animals to feed them, as well.

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Oh, don't worry.

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It's only me, Mr. Gone,
man of two worlds and master

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of disguise.

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Give this...

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to Julie Winters when
you see her.

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After my encounter with her on
the fifth zone, I may not have

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a head to go back to.

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Another tussle.

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Good for the soul.

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You really don't remember
how I fight back at the gas

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station, do you?

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- Eat droppings, puck wallow!

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- Naughty, naughty,
Br'er Lappin.

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Do they teach you to talk
like that back at the warren?

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- Ant teekler!

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- And you're a lot stronger
on this side.

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I have to remember that.

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- Arrrg, hairless circling!

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- Maxx, we can't waste our time
like this.

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- Why not?

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I fight evil and you are evil.

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- No, no, that's just it.

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You're no superhero.

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You're a protector.

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Julie Win...
Uh, I mean the Leopard Queen's

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protector.

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- Huh?

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- The two of you are
soul-linked.

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What she feels, you feel,
and she is lost, lost in

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the city and in her mind.

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- Why should I believe you,
vile sorcerer?

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- Maxx.

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- You are bad.

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- Maxx.

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- I am good.

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- Maxx.

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- I am the Maxx.

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- Maxx!

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- What?

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- Let me just convince you
with one word.

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Mommy.

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You see, I know about the dream,
about the doll,

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about everything.

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I know who you really are,
who you were before you found

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the mask lying in the mud,
and what you are now behind

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the mask, although you've been
too cowardly to look.

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- Tell me.

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- Maybe later.

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The truth about you is merely
embarrassing.

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Julie's truth could destroy her.

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- And this Julie
and the Queen of the Leopard

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women are one?

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- Yep.

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Man, this is gonna be a long
night.

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This primitive plain, which you
think is Australia, and I call

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Pangaea, is all that is real.

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The other world is a dream where
we're trapped playing out

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our deepest fantasies.

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When Julie Winters was hurt,
never mind how, she created

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a fantasy world for herself...
a place where she would have

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control.

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You've got to go back for her,
to the city, find her,

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and protect her, keep her from
knowing too much of the truth

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all at once, for the truth
will destroy her.

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- MAXX NARRATES:
At least, that's what

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the villain told me.

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But who can believe a villain.

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Still, as I talked to Julie,
I can't help remembering

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his words.

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He never told me anything
straight out, only in riddles.

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But he implied a lot.

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He hinted she was in danger...
maybe from herself.

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Do you think we're ready for
toenail clipping at this stage

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in our relationship?

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- Ho, ho, funny boy.

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Here, let me do it.

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You're too careful.

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- MAXX NARRATES:
She seems a lot quieter since

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her encounter with Mr. Gone,
more pensive, calmer.

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- You've gotta get right in
there and trim those babies.

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- MAXX NARRATES:
Ew, weirder.

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Gone told me how three years
ago, a young architectural

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student was beaten and raped
and left for dead.

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Julie, are you gonna be okay?

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I mean, being kidnapped and all.

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- Hey, Gone tried his tricks on
me, but I got the best of him.

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So it's history.

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- MAXX NARRATES: When she got
out of the hospital, she used

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all her tuition money to set up
a new life as a freelance

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social worker tying to help
other victims of the urban

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nightmare.

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- JULIE: I hate whining
and I hate professional victims.

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All day long I hear sob stories
from idiots who can't cope

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and so they pick something
to blame.

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I was robbed.

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I was raped.

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Nobody loves me.

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Zzzzt, time out.

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- MAXX NARRATES: This woman
used her position to build

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a wall around herself.

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- JULIE: Everybody's gotta take
responsibility for their own

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life, you know.

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- MAXX NARRATING: She helped
people by controlling them,

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hoping to smother her own
pain...something like that...

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and somewhere in the wild land,
in the land of dreams,

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in Pangaea, her inner self
was imprisoned by her own

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self-loathing.

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I don't know.

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It seems like if somebody's
raped, it's not like a test

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you failed or a job where
you get fired.

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It's somebody else's guilt
for once.

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You get to have your own
anger and...

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- JULIE: Hey, Maxx, save
the liberal feminist garbage

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for someone who cares, okay?

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- MAXX NARRATES: At least,
that's what Gone told me.

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I don't know if I believed
anything he said...least of

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all about Julie.

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- JULIE: Sorry.

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I know you're just trying to
watch out for me like you always

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do, but it's over now.

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I cut the bastard's head free.

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You chased him back to
god-knows-where.

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It's over.

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- MAXX NARRATES: And, in fact,
I was already having trouble

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remembering the details
of what he said.

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It was like a dream...

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- JULIE: And I'm gonna
be just fine.

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- MAXX NARRATES:
...a really bad dream.

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- MAN: Safe home, dear friends,
and come again, to behold the

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mysteries of MTV's "Oddities."