The Mr. Nile Experiment
27: Penultimate Questions
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  Imaginary of Suburbia.
/		   It's Disturbia now.
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    Clever bit of word play, don't you think?
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  You can't
hurt me.
/		   I beg to differ.
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I'm the one writing this strip.
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   Are you?
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    Then did you write Episode 24?
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  I...
\		   Let me put it
another way.
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    If you're the writer, why am I the one holding the gun?
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  Merlin said. He said I was still in charge.
/		   Yes. He did. So what does that make me?
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  You? I made you up. You're nothing.
/		   Oh? Merlin made you up, didn't he? Are you nothing?
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  No! I'm more than that. I'm a part of him.
/		   That's right. Now go on. Work it through.
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    Merlin made you up. That makes you a part of him.
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  And you made
me up. So?
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  No...
/		   Yes. That makes me a part of you.
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    So any deal you made with Merlin?
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    Well. I figure it can apply just as much to me.
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  So.
/		   So.
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    I'll be killing
you now.
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  And then?
/		   Then I'll be Mr. Nile for a while.
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  I'll go off to whatever reality Merlin writes me into next.
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    And you can
stay here.
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    You can be Imaginary all on your own.
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  Now. Turn to face your audience.
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All that talk.
/		   What?
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Your protests. About the damage done to this reality.
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What was that?
/		   Oh. That.
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  Come along now, Mr. Nile. You know what that was.
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You were lying.
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  Yes. I was lying.
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