You just see that guy? What guy?
The guy that was just at the counter -- was wearing one of those like British jackets and had a briefcase. I helped him but I know you saw him. The guy that just left?
	Yeah, dumbass. What about him? Seemed nice enough. He's an operator, man. For MCI or AT&T?
You're so stupid. He's like a covert, crypto, politico-operator. How the fuck do you know?
	I know this girl who used to kind of be with this guy who was plugged in. She told me all about it. So the guy's like CIA or what?
No, he's an indie operator. A mechanic?
	No, he's not supposed to be a killer. He like goes under the current, you know. Does things. Like ghost writes for a couple journals. Intercepts plots and takes down the big bad buys. Like Arnie but smarter. I hate working with you. You're so full of shit. Can't we get through one shift without one of your paranoid delusions taking center stage? Why can't we just talk about sports or something like regular guys?
Oh yeah? Here's the story Isabela told me: There was like this research doctor guy and he was like working on some sort of fake hormone stuff on like a Pentagon grant, right?	Like in the milk?
Yeah but serious shit. Like that could kill you if you breathed it. But it was supposed to be... it was gonna be a deal like it would kill you and could even be programmed to just like kill say a black guy or whatever they want. You know it was like... it wasn't hormones, but I can't remember now. But it would just like kill a certain kind of guy so that another guy would be immune and could go up and just be near the first guy to kill him. And it would kill you all slow in a way that looked natural.	So it would be like a genocide thing?
	Yeah, exactly, if you're into that shit. So this research guy has got like cancer, right? And normally they don't let terminally ill people work with the shit he's working but he's got it gunched so nobody knows he's dying but him. And he's going to like release this stuff he's made. He doesn't care. He's dying and he's pissed off. It's gonna like kill every woman... or Chinese guy -- I can't remember which -- in the whole world. But anyway, this operator guy who was in here, he like finds out, fights his way into some serious military installation and caps the doc. Thought you said he wasn't a killer.
I forgot he killed the doctor. Point is: he like saves the world and no one knew it was even going on. 'Cept your bimbo girlfriend of course.
	Hey, fuck you. That guy, he wasn't a spy. He was just a skinny little fucker. I could beat his ass without trying.
Like to see you try. Bet he'd kill you in two seconds. Yeah, not likely... ...Hey-
	What? Do you suppose it's true? I mean, you'd have to look at everyone different if something like that were true.
Something like what? What you told me, stupid.
	I don't know. It's a big old world. Who knows? I doubt it, though. No, come to think of it, definitely not. So what are you doing this weekend? You going out at all?
I don't know. Does it matter? Nothing ever happens in this town anyway. Yeah, you're right about that much.