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Same Day: Miami, Florida
Another Building: Basement / Dungeon
Trixie is typing on her computer with an unconscious Dipper strapped to an old bed frame standing up.
Dipper wakes up, "Ah..." He moves his hands and realizes they are tied. He sighs, "Okay."
Trixie turns her seat around, folds her hands in her lap, smiling at Dipper, "It's just like old times, huh?"
Dipper, not looking at Trixie, moving his strapped hands, says sarcastically, "Oh, yeah. With zip ties. It's a ball." He looks at her, annoyed.
Trixie shakes her head, "It wasn't my idea."
Dipper states, "Okay. So you took Bill's card."
Trixie corrects, "I took his money."
Dipper continues, "And here you are 13 years later, in a dungeon."
Trixie refuses, "No."
Dipper pushes, "Yeah."
Trixie corrects again and tells Dipper, "No, you're in a dungeon. I'm free to go."
Dipper looks away, "Yeah?"
Trixie sighs as she gets up. She walks forward the stairs, "A lot has happened, Dipper." She walks down, "But I'm close." She walks towards him, "EXTREMIS is practically stabilized."
Dipper snaps, "I'm telling you it isn't." Trixie stops in front of him, sighs, annoyed, "I'm on the street. People are going bang. They're painting the walls. Trixie, you're kidding yourself."
Trixie pleads as she holds up Dipper's name tag, 'You Know Who I Am', the one he used the last time he saw her in '99, "Then help me fix it." She turns it around with her fingers to show him what he wrote, a scientific equation.
Dipper asks Trixie as he looks at it, "Did I do that?"
Trixie looks at Dipper in disbelief as she lowers her arm, "Yes."
Dipper tells Trixie honestly, "I remember the night, not the morning." He asks her, "Is this what you've been chasing around?"
With tears in her eyes, Trixie asks Dipper in disbelief, "You don't remember?"
Dipper tells Trixie, "I can't help you. You used to have moral psychology. You used to have ideals. You wanted to help people. Now, look at you. I get to wake up every morning with someone who... doesn't believe it but still has their soul." He's talking about Pacifica and how she doesn't believe in herself because of what she's done in her past before she was dating Dipper, but Dipper loves and believes in her. Dipper tells Trixie, "Get me out of here." Trixie was stunned at what she heard but then swallowed and looked down, "Come on." Trixie looks at him and turns around, walking away from him.
Bill then walks in, "You know what my old man used to say to me?" Dipper looks to his left to see Bill casually walking down the set of stairs as he says, "One of his favorite of many sayings... 'The early bird gets the worm-," He walks to the table as he finishes the quote, "-but the second mouse gets the cheese.'" Trixie stood off to the side with her arms crossed.
Dipper asks Bill, who sets his briefcase down, "You're not still pissed off about the Switzerland thing, are you?"
Bill turns around, "How can I be pissed at you, Dipper? I'm here to thank you." He walks up to Dipper, "You gave me the greatest gift that anybody's ever given me." He stops in front of him, "Desperation. If you think back to Switzerland, you said you'd meet me on the rooftop, right? Well, I thought you'd show up for the first 20 minutes." Dipper narrows his eyes as he listens intently, "And the next hour... I... I considered taking that one-step shortcut to the lobby. If you know what I mean." He's talking about committing suicide by falling to his death.
Dipper tells Bill, "Honestly, I'm still trying to figure out what happened to the first mouse."
Bill ignores Dipper and continues, "But as I looked out over that city-,"
Flashback: 1999, Berns, Switzerland
Night: Rooftop
Bill's voice continues explaining, "-nobody knew I was there, nobody could see me, no one was even looking." Bill walks over to the edge as the fireworks go off in the sky, the wind blowing in his hair as he looks up. Bill's voice says, "I had a thought that would guide me for years to come."
Present Day: Miami, Florida
Basement / Dungeon
Bill looks and points at Dipper as he finishes, "Anonymity, Dipper." Dipper stares at him as Bill walks, "Thanks to you. It's been my mantra ever since." Bill looks at Trixie, "Right?" Trixie nods a bit. Her lips twitch up a bit in a tiny smile before looking at Dipper. Bill continues, "You simply rule from behind the scenes."
Flashback: Studio Room
The Mandarin Set-Up
Bill standing by the screen as Fiddleford in his 'Mandarin' role, sitting on the set-up throne, Bill's voice says, "Because the second you give evil a face-," People around the room filming and being on set, "-a bin Laden, a Gaddafi, a Mandarin-," Fiddleford side glances at Bill.
Present Day: Miami, Florida
Basement / Dungeon
Bill finishes, "-you hand the people a target."
Dipper states bluntly, not looking at Bill, "You're something else."
Bill ignores Dipper's statement and sits down, opening his case, then asks Dipper, "You have met him, I assume?" He's talking about Fiddleford.
Dipper looks down as he answers, "Yes. Sir Laurence Olivier."
Bill sort of defended Fiddleford, "I know he's a little over the top sometimes. It's not entirely my fault. He has a tendon... He's-He's a stage actor. They say his Lear was the toast of Croydon, wherever that is. Anyway, the point is, ever since that one girl with the wand fell out of the sky-," He's talking about Star, "-subtlety has kind of had its day."
Dipper asks Bill, "What's next for you in your world?"
Bill tells Dipper, "Well, I wanted to repay you the selfsame gift that you so graciously imparted to me." He holds up his three small digital balls, leans down, and tosses them. They roll on the floor before activating, the orbs humming. Bill presses a button on his remote, turning them on to reveal a hologram of Pacifica strapped up with the EXTREMIS being injected inside her, "Desperation." Dipper's eyes widen when he sees Pacifica. Bill explains, "Now, this is life. I'm not sure if you can tell, but at this moment, the body is trying to decide whether to accept EXTREMIS or give up." Dipper, with tears forming in his eyes as he watches Pacifica trying to fight the pain she's being inflicted within her, "And if it gives up-," Pacifica leans her head back and screams in pain, breathing heavily. Dipper flinches in his straps, closes his eyes, turns his head away as the woman he loves suffers in pain. Bill says, "I have to say, the detonation is quite spectacular." Trixie even closes her eyes, not to watch. Dipper looks back to Pacifica, struggling a bit as she screams in pain. He quickly looks away, "But until that point, it's really just a lot of pain." Trixie tries not to show emotion, looking away from the hologram. Bill clicks his remote, and the hologram of Pacifica turns off. Bill puts the remote down and stands up, walking towards Dipper, "We haven't even talked salary yet." Bill goes up to Dipper and grabs his neck. Bill asks Dipper as a spark of EXTREMIS runs up Bill's neck and cheek. Dipper groans at the grip Bill's holding on his neck, "What kind of perk package are you thinking of?"
Trixie demands from behind Bill, "Let him go."
Bill tells Dipper lowly, "Hold on, hold on." Bill turns around to face Trixie, "Trixie..."
Trixie moves her hair to her left shoulder as she holds an injection towards the right side of her neck. She basically yells, "I said, let him go."
Bill asks Trixie, surprised and confused, "What are you doing?"
Trixie tells Bill, not fully answering his question, "1200 CCs. A dose half of this size, I'm dead."
Bill turns his head to Dipper, saying calmly, "It's a time like this. My temper is tested somewhat." Dipper, looking at him emotionless, Bill turns back to Trixie, telling her gently, "Trixie, give me the injector." He holds his hand out to her.
Still holding the poisonous injection towards her neck, Trixie slowly walks back up the stairs behind her, "If I die, Bill, what happens to your soldiers? What happens to your product?"
Bill steps toward Trixie and waves his hand a bit as he gives her a look, "We're not doing this, okay?"
Trixie questions, "What happens to you? What happens if you go too hot?" Trixie gives Bill a look like 'I'm not kidding'. Bill breathes in deeply, trying to stay calm and not snap.
Bill turns to Dipper, looking at him, when he suddenly shoots Trixie in the chest. Dipper flinches and watches Trixie fall on her butt, shocked.
Dipper looks away, shocked himself. Trixie looks at Dipper in pain. Bill tells Dipper, "The good news is, a high-level position has just been vacated." Dipper watches as Trixie groans in pain and falls on her arms, dying before falling completely dead.
Dipper sighs as he tries to keep his emotions in as he watches a woman he knows die in front of him. He looks down as he states to Bill, "You are a maniac."
Bill denies, "No, I'm a visionary. But I own a maniac." He walks up the stairs, "And she takes the stage tonight." Bill stops when he reaches the top of the stairs as he remembers, "Oh, another thing, I gotta ask you, Dipper." Bill turns to Dipper, who looks at him, "Where's Mabel?"
Dipper glares at Bill, answering vaguely, "Not here."
Bill smiles, "I know not here, here." He asks again but with a severe expression and tone, "Where is she, Dipper?" Dipper shakes his head, looking away, refusing to tell him, "Alright. Not to worry, I'll find her eventually." Dipper struggles in his zip ties angrily, not wanting Bill anywhere near Mabel. Suddenly, a shout interrupts them. Bill smiles, turns around, and greets, "Welcome, Ms. Fenton." Jazz is being brought into the room by two guards. Dipper looks at her, shocked. Bill looks at Jazz as the guards make her stand in front of him, her hands zip-tied behind her back, "I'm a big fan of your work, truly." Jazz stares at him weirdly. Bill's smile disappears, "Now, I'm going to ask you the same question I asked Dipper. Where is Mabel?"
Jazz tells Bill, "I don't know." Bill reacts and quickly grabs her jaw, bringing her closer to him. She gasps, frightened. Dipper angrily struggles in his restraints.
Bill tells Jazz deadly, "Don't lie to me."
Jazz, with tears in her eyes, not looking at Bill, "I'm not." She looks at Dipper, "When I woke up, she was gone." Bill takes a second before releasing her. Bill nods to his guards, the two guards nod and take Jazz by the arms and drag her down the stairs. Jazz looks over to see Trixie's dead body. She gasps in horror. The guard makes her sit on a roller chair. Dipper watches their movements as they do.
Bill looks over at Dipper, who looks up at him, "I told you, Dipper." He turns around and walks away, saying, "I'll find her eventually."