Re-Entry 15: Video/Spam

[itstopped]

[Inmate Filter]

[It was a very good weekend with a very bad ending for Felix, which might be why he's back to smoking in front of the camera again. The collar of his shirt is unbuttoned as well, although he otherwise seems as composed as usual.]

Do any of you know why you're here?

[He pauses, then smirks ruefully.] For once, I'm not trying to sow dissent. I don't need you to tell me what kind of monster the Admiral is. I'm just... wondering what you think it is he thinks you need to change, and...

Well, no and. Just that.

[Private to Claire Bennet]

Could I ask you a question?

[Private to Trip, Racetrack, Barbara, Charles, separately]

I have something to tell you. [He glances away from the screen for a second, worry -- or something worse -- flashing in his eyes.] I... think I might really be a traitor this time.

If you're receiving this message-- [A tacit, almost wordless admission that there are others involved here, multiple victims.] --it's because I've been gathering information on you. My resources have been... limited, but I've compiled a detailed file that contains more or less everything you've said on any public or warden-only filter, and in some cases, in private communications as well.

I honestly thought that, given my... my history, I was doing what was best for myself and for the ship, but I realize now that I was wrong. I take full responsibility for my actions.

[Spam for Dean]

[Felix had left the room as soon as Dean had, the night after the flood, and he's been laying even lower than usual ever since. It's not that he wants to stay away, not this time -- he's just assuming that Dean wants nothing to do with him, and as much as he already misses him, he doesn't want to provoke a confrontation when he has nothing more to say in his own defense and no particularly convincing argument to make Dean take him back.

Honestly, things seem to go better for him when he avoids conflicts, anyway.

Unfortunately, though, he actually needs some things from the room, so he tries to pick a time when he suspects Dean won't be around. He still has the key, so he slips inside quietly and starts collecting his things, with every intention of leaving the key behind and no further trace of himself.]

Comments

[Inmate Filter]

[mistconduct]

Why do you even care?

[Inmate Filter]

[itstopped]

It was a pretty simple question.

[Inmate Filter]

[mistconduct]

I'mma ask again because I know you're not a stupid fuck;

Why do you care?

[Inmate Filter]

[itstopped]

I appreciate the compliment.

I'll say it again: it was a pretty simple question. I wanted to know if people know why they're here. I don't.

[Inmate Filter]

[mistconduct]

Could be something to do with you being kind of a prick who does more harm than good over the course of their life. Just a thought.

[Inmate Filter]

[itstopped]

You know I know you know very little about me, don't you?

[Inmate Filter]

[mistconduct]

You know I know you're an inmate and it's standard for inmates to have done more harm than good otherwise we wouldn't be here, right?

Prick.

[Inmate Filter]

[itstopped]

And graduates?

[Inmate Filter]

[mistconduct]

No idea. I'm not a graduate.

[Inmate Filter]

[itstopped]

But logically speaking, if you want to reduce the entire population to a simple equation, graduated inmates must also have done more harm than good over the course of their lives. Unless there's a community service element I missed.

[Inmate Filter]

[mistconduct]

Yeah, logically speaking I guess inmates are shitty people and graduated inmates are making steps to be less shitty people.

[Inmate Filter]

[itstopped]

Inmates aren't making similar steps?

[Inmate Filter]

[mistconduct]

Not the really shitty ones.

[Inmate Filter]

[itstopped]

But now your generalization is starting to fall apart.

[Inmate Filter]

[mistconduct]

Except I'm past giving a fuck at this point.

[Inmate Filter]

[itstopped]

Then we're back to where we started: neither one of us knows why I'm here, and neither one of us cares much about the other.

[Inmate Filter]

[mistconduct]

What do you think there's worth caring about you?

[Inmate Filter]

[itstopped]

I'm not as bad as most of the other inmates.

[Inmate Filter]

[mistconduct]

According to you.

[Inmate Filter]

[itstopped]

No, more or less objectively, as much as these things can be objective.

[Inmate Filter]

[mistconduct]

You think you're better than me?

[Inmate Filter]

[itstopped]

Well, I've never killed anyone for the sake of pleasing someone else. Or tortured, or... anything, really. I've never taken pleasure in violence. Everything I've done, I really did do because I believed it was right at the time.

[Inmate Filter]

[mistconduct]

So if anything, I'm smarter.

[Inmate Filter]

[itstopped]

[You're just going to get this extremely skeptical face, Chris. He's not sure how you worked that one out.]

Re: [Inmate Filter]

[mistconduct]

You believed what you were doing was right and you still ended up here as an inmate. You have no fucking clue because your moral compass is probably fucked up six ways to Sunday. At least I KNOW what shitty behavior looks like.