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Brucipher
  • 6/4/2025
Part 69 of the walkthrough of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided for the PC.
Transcript
00:00There's got to be something.
00:30There's got to be something.
01:00I like it down here.
01:12If you don't, then you can just fuck off.
01:30You always did want to travel.
01:42You travel?
01:43Yes.
01:43Not to be a fugitive.
01:45I recognize you.
01:46Melana, you didn't take my advice about giving up on forgery.
01:49I know, I know.
01:52But trouble is, I've got a talent for it.
01:55And it's a real growth market.
01:57As soon as you got me out of that thing with Dragomir, I had like 20 emails from Samizdat.
02:03Do you have any idea how difficult it is for art school graduates to find a specialist subject these days?
02:09The permits aren't enough for police anymore.
02:12Forged or real.
02:13In Prague, maybe.
02:15But it turns out I'm multilingual when it comes to falsifying border passes.
02:21Lucky, right?
02:22Never works.
02:23I'd say lucky.
02:25Thanks for the vote of confidence, super commando man.
02:28Oh, don't mention it, Melana.
02:30If there was an easier option, you think we wouldn't take it?
02:34I was less stressed out when I was working at gunpoint.
02:37We may not agree on your methods, but I'll let you get back to your work.
02:41Coming from you, that is like the gold star seal of approval.
02:53Coffee are all right.
02:55It's getting more and more difficult to happen.
02:57Welcome to the underground.
02:59And I owe you an apology for hacking your infolink.
03:07Don't sweat it.
03:08I'm assuming you had a good reason.
03:10Samizdat's usual channels are all bugged.
03:13I couldn't risk an audio communication being traced back here.
03:17You're little K, right?
03:19You don't sound local.
03:21I wrote some things that made me have to delocalize a long time ago.
03:26Been living story to story on a Schengen visa and a language implant ever since.
03:31Never expect a short story from a long-form journalist.
03:37You want to know why I brought you here.
03:39The police raided Samizdat last night.
03:41Cleared us out.
03:42We were broadcasting until they pulled the plug.
03:47Radios, flyers, mailbursts, the makeshift media van.
03:51Getting the message out to our subscribers if they needed a refuge.
03:55As you can see, it went a little wider than we anticipated.
03:59This isn't what I call laying low.
04:07Aren't you afraid the police will find you again, finish what they started?
04:10They already got the cape.
04:12Bones, the backup servers, even the shitty coffee machine.
04:15Enough for them to call it a win.
04:17And get back to indiscriminate brutality on the streets.
04:23Where were you when this happened?
04:25Right here.
04:26Running our little home away from home.
04:28Our sources tipped us off about the martial law.
04:31Either we could write about it and throw our hands up.
04:34Boy, I sure hope this massive rights violation doesn't end up being too awful this time.
04:40Or we could enact a readiness plan and really do something.
04:45Yeah, when we first met, I called you pamphleteers.
04:48I guess I should apologize.
04:51Oh no, we were pamphleteers.
04:54Now we're pamphleteers, jury rigging, and underground railroad.
04:58So are you running a resistance cell here or a campaign room?
05:04Why not both?
05:06Now Samistad has a captive voter base we could run for the Senate.
05:11It's organized resistance then.
05:13Peaceful resistance.
05:14We're working together to get people under the cordon and out of Prague.
05:19It's a happy accident of a police state.
05:22Well, I say happy when everyone's repressed, they can see past their prejudices.
05:28Or they shift the blame.
05:30It's going to take a long time for those prejudices to heal.
05:32As long as certain people can profit from keeping the wounds fresh.
05:37But you knew that already.
05:42What happened to Kay?
05:45Kay is me now, according to the Samistad Manifesto.
05:49It's all very third-wave socialist with a dash of martyr complex.
05:53Good to know.
05:55But I mean, what physically happened to him?
05:59Right.
06:00His name is Yarek.
06:01Yarek Drobny.
06:03He's being held by the police along with bones.
06:06No contact.
06:07No bail.
06:08No rights.
06:08Plausible deniability.
06:11You must have known the risks.
06:12Well, he was open to the existence of risks.
06:18When you showed up, it should have been a wake-up call.
06:21But you were reasonable.
06:23The state isn't reasonable.
06:27I'm pretty sure you didn't call me to put up posters.
06:30What's the deal?
06:32We've made a plan.
06:33We're getting people out of the city, starting first thing tomorrow.
06:37Well, I want Yarek and Bones to go with them, but first, we need to bust them out of jail.
06:46Tonight.
06:47And you think I'm the kind of guy who breaks into police stations?
06:51Are you telling me you're not?
06:57Fine, I'll get them out.
06:59They're being held in the temporary police station downtown?
07:02Yes.
07:03By the Monument Metro.
07:04Once you're clear, take them across the plaza to the United Cleaners.
07:09We've cached everything they need for a long road trip along the old NATO decommissioning zone.
07:15That's your escape route?
07:17Puts getting them past the state police into perspective?
07:20It works on paper.
07:23And gives them these new identity documents.
07:26A lot of new identities.
07:28We found a very good forger.
07:30We're keeping her from a bright future in a pica's newsroom.
07:34Too many people.
07:39We'll have to borrow more trucks.
07:40Can we get back into the city trust before tonight?
07:44We've already taken so many.
07:46Maybe we should consider freight trains again.
07:49You don't know where they're from.
07:50I recognize these trains have been.
07:51I don't either, but they're highly radioactive.
07:54I don't know where they're from.
08:20Yeah.
16:00Oh, my God.
16:30Oh, my God.
17:00Oh, my God.
17:30Well, that's a good start, man.
17:32First, you have to see that your things are being opened up.
17:37Then, you can go again.
17:39I could not see another good start.
17:41Letting us both fail to bash these assholes.
18:00Anomaly detected.
18:20Trace program initiated.
18:23Access granted.
18:47It's your fault, I'm here.
19:02You're here to free us or in terror?
19:04You.
19:05I knew it, man.
19:06I knew you were one of them all along.
19:09Do I look like I'm one of them?
19:12I can feel my hands right now, but if I could run a search for shadowy extra government agent
19:17on the net, pretty sure it's all you.
19:20Fair point.
19:21What happened?
19:22You pulled a freedom of information speech on the state police?
19:26Ha, fucking ha.
19:28They didn't wait for a speech, man.
19:31Lesson learned.
19:32Smash the state before the state smashes your nose.
19:36Little Kay asked me to get you out.
19:37She's the Kay now, man.
19:40I'm a liability to Sam's dad.
19:42She cares about you, Yarrick.
19:44She didn't want to leave you or Bones behind.
19:47Always was a cool cat, man.
19:49One of the good ones.
19:50She wrote The Will's Come Off 16 years ago, and the conspiracies just keep shaking out.
19:55Everything except the gray aliens, but who's to say that's not a metaphor?
20:00She wrote the book.
20:01I don't believe in authorial intent.
20:07I might have known you wouldn't keep your heads down during the riots.
20:11This is what a radical news source lives for, man.
20:14Lives and dies for.
20:15But the helmets on the streets, the extreme, peacekeeping, that's not about the Gollum riots.
20:21How are the Oggs gonna get over here?
20:23Carpool?
20:24No.
20:24Someone, somewhere, wanted the cops to clean house in pride.
20:28And this is just the beginning.
20:30What if they could call martial law anywhere, anytime?
20:33Cops without borders.
20:35That's your prediction, huh?
20:36You can take it to the bank, man.
20:39The Palisade Property Bank.
20:43You told me you were a liability to Sam's debt.
20:46How do you figure that?
20:48Because the cops burned me, man.
20:50Exposure is death.
20:52They didn't have to ask a single question.
20:54Just took my DNA off their knuckles.
20:57My high school dropout date.
20:59My sister's parking tickets.
21:00My dark night process.
21:02Oral cemetery.
21:04Oral cemetery?
21:05They didn't get a lot of mainstream airplane.
21:08Anyway, a little case shouldn't have sent you.
21:10Sam's debt has to be bigger than any man.
21:13Or woman.
21:14Sam's debt is bigger than you now, Yarrick.
21:17The resistance reached further than you planned for.
21:19You want to fall on your sword?
21:21There's a better place to do it than in a holding cell.
21:23Whoa, whoa.
21:24You know I use the term liability real broadly.
21:30I warned you about picking a fight with Pycus.
21:33They've got a lot invested in protecting the message.
21:36Would I be talking to you now if Pycus had got to us?
21:39I mean, does Eliza Kassan have a sense of humor?
21:42All those bombs going off lately.
21:44What's one more in the sewers?
21:46A BTW?
21:47Those are all rhetorical questions.
21:49You don't say.
21:51But they're trying, man.
21:53Bones heard the cops talking about extraordinary rendition.
21:56What a wonderful connected world we live in.
21:58When they can pin an acronym on you.
22:00ARC, NSF.
22:01Who gives a right's ass and ship you off to a black site on the UN's credits?
22:06Just how many states are you an enemy of?
22:08All the corporate ones.
22:13There's a way out of Prague for you both.
22:15The Samozat resistance has organized everything.
22:17We just need to keep our heads down and get to the cleaners nearby.
22:21The cleaners?
22:22Huh.
22:23Irony.
22:24Wait.
22:25You mean going through the cops?
22:27There's a police locker in the corner that should be stocked with uniforms.
22:34Find something that fits and try to look convincing.
22:37We need the cops to think you're one of them.
22:48Good.
22:49It's time to go.
22:57Whatever you do, don't let them catch you alive.
23:04You got that piece done yet?
23:09Low profile.
23:10Low profile.
23:13I'm very good at taking cover.
23:15How much further?
23:16We need the cops.
23:37We need the cops.
23:39We need a human.
23:41We need a human.
23:44We should send out insurance archive again.
24:10Good looking copy.
24:12Long leave some dead.
24:21That was exhilarating.
24:26I can't breathe!
24:28Okay, okay.
24:29Now I'm breathing.
24:32Yes!
24:33Exit plans, man.
24:34Exit plans.
24:35Always be making them.
24:36We worked this contingency plan out when we started Samizdat.
24:39Didn't think it would actually come to this though.
24:42No one thought it would be like this.
24:45You're gonna need these documents where you're going, wherever that is.
24:51I hear Paris is the best place to have a revolutionary agenda these days.
24:54If you want to come along, you can be the muscle.
24:57Well, whatever your arms are made of, the stuff they use on space shuttles.
25:00No can do.
25:01I've got a previous engagement I really can't miss.
25:06Right.
25:07With the cardboard box company.
25:09And watch yourself out there, Kay.
25:12Kay?
25:13Kay is Kazdy, man.
25:15Kay is everyone.
25:16You're part of it now.
25:18You must look down.
25:19That part of it happens.
25:23Yeah.