Total pages in book: 40
Estimated words: 38333 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 192(@200wpm)___ 153(@250wpm)___ 128(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 38333 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 192(@200wpm)___ 153(@250wpm)___ 128(@300wpm)
Kowalski: MARSH SAID FUCK. THE BOOK BROKE MARSH.
David: Castillo — thirty-six bodies, burial logistics, Montana clay density. You tracked a grain elevator by satellite in session one. Thoughts?
[silence]
David: Castillo?
[silence]
Castillo: No.
Kowalski: She — what? One word? CASTILLO. There is a MASS GRAVE. You GPS'd a fictional clubhouse. You made a suspect cry during our Book 3 discussion. And NOW you have nothing?
Castillo: Continue.
Kowalski: Castillo not talking is scarier than anything in this book and this book has a mass burial.
Marsh: Selective mutism in a previously hyper-verbal subject is actually—
Castillo: I'm fine. Continue.
Kowalski: THE ENDING. He rides to Savannah COVERED in dirt from burying thirty-six people. Covered in it. Montana clay under his nails, in his hair, ground into the brand scar on his chest. And he takes her to Eleanor's vault and shows her the Book of Legion and he CRIES.
This man. This touch-her-and-die, property-of, morally gray, down-bad-since-fourteen, only-her-for-eighteen years man with twenty-seven dollars and a demon name — he looks at photos of himself as a TODDLER that his own mother never bothered to take and he breaks. He fucking BREAKS. Because a complicated dead woman loved him when nobody else did.
David: And then he tells Savannah everything. The shootout. Brick. The informants. The bodies. All of it.
Kowalski: And then he STANDS UP. Walks to the elevator. And LEAVES HER IN THE VAULT. Alone. Because he thinks the demons won.
DNR. Do not resuscitate. Bury me in the vault next to Eleanor's photographs. I am DECEASED.
Marsh: OK from a clinical — no, fuck it, I'm not doing clinical. The man exhibits textbook avoidant-dismissive attachment with — [GUNFIRE — 3 rounds] — no, I said FUCK the framework. He WALKED AWAY. After everything. After she chose him over her inheritance, her family, her four million followers, her entire curated existence. After she literally got PROPERTY OF DEMON tattooed on her body and rode for him in front of forty-seven bikers and—
Kowalski: ...
Kai: ...
Castillo: ...
David: ...
Marsh: Anyway his abandonment schema clearly replicates the original maternal—
Kowalski: SHE DIAGNOSED HERSELF AND WENT RIGHT BACK TO DIAGNOSING LEGION I AM SCREAMING
Marsh: I'm a professional, Kowalski. I can be unhinged AND clinical. [GUNFIRE — 1 round] That one was for Legion walking away.
David: I need to discuss something.
Kowalski: We're DISCUSSING—
David: Not about Legion. About Brandy.
[silence]
David: He shot her. She walked toward him with her phone and he didn't even — she was twenty-one. She had this way of standing on that porch watching everything and I — I read her as someone trapped. I thought underneath the handler bullshit there was a person who was in over her head and—
Kowalski: David.
David: What.
Kowalski: Did you claim Brandy as your book girlie?
David: I found her narratively compelling.
Marsh: ...
Kowalski: ...
Kai: ...
Castillo: ...
David: Don't do that.
Kowalski: David. DAVID. You defended Marcus for forty-five minutes in session one. You found the federal plant who leaked sex tapes "narratively compelling." You have a TYPE and that type is "red flag factory with a smile." You are the toxic woman magnet. You are the man who looks at a burning building and says "but what if I could FIX the fire."
Marsh: That's actually — yeah, no, she's right. Attraction to emotionally unavailable women who present controlled surfaces while actively undermining— David, you need to be on my couch IMMEDIATELY.
David: I don't need to be—
Marsh: You fell for a FED PLANT in a BIKER COMPOUND in a BOOK, David. You need SO much couch time. Your attachment pattern is "she'll ruin my life and I'll write a report about it." That's not a love language, that's a fucking DIAGNOSIS. [GUNFIRE — 1 round]
Kowalski: MARSH IS SHOOTING AND DIAGNOSING AT THE SAME TIME. This book club has become a crime scene.
David: SHE WAS TWENTY-ONE AND THEY PLANTED HER IN A COMPOUND FULL OF DANGEROUS MEN AND NOBODY TALKS ABOUT WHAT THAT COSTS—
Kowalski: OH MY GOD HE'S DEFENDING HER. He's doing the Marcus thing again but for BRANDY. He's pulling a Book 1 David. Someone stop this man from falling in love with villains.
Kai: David. She was a handler. She knew what the job was.
David: You don't KNOW—
Kai: I know what handlers look like. I'm standing near where they buried hers.
Marsh: ...
Kowalski: ...
David: ...
Castillo: ...
Kowalski: The way I just got full body chills from that sentence. Kai hasn't raised his voice ONCE in five sessions and every single thing he says hits like a fucking freight train—
[9:01 AM — KAI's phone buzzes audibly on camera]
Kai: Hold on.
Kowalski: What?
Kai: I just got a text from headquarters.
David: We're in the middle of—
Kai: Holy shit… I've been reassigned. Permanently. Effective immediately. Prairie Division. Montana field office.
David: There IS no Montana field office in Prairie Division.
Kai: There is now. It's a decommissioned gas station outside Terry
David: ...
Marsh: ...
Kowalski: ...
Kai: Castillo.
[silence]
Kai: How long have you known?
[long silence]
Castillo: Three weeks.
Kowalski: WHAT THE FUCK—
Castillo: They briefed me three weeks ago. Kai's reassignment. The field office. All of it. They've been reading our transcripts since session two. The coordinates I provided were logged as preliminary field intelligence. My "hobby" was reclassified as active casework. Retroactively.