The Caveman's Valentine Page #2

And, yeah, they're beautiful

because they're Scotty.

Scotty was

Leppenraub's model?

He was his f***ing slave.

He was so ashamed of the pictures,

he wouldn't even show them to me.

That bastard took him up

to his farm, tortured him,

got him strung out on dope.

He-He even branded him, Rom.

He burned a heart

on Scotty's ass.

And then when he was done with him, he threw

him away, like a f***ing piece of trash.

I found him on the street

like that, you know?

I didn't care.

He was still beautiful.

He was beautiful to me.

But he couldn't let it go, you know?

All the sh*t that happened to him.

He kept telling me that he

had this tape of the torture.

He was going to get a bunch of

money from Leppenraub for it.

That's what got him killed.

You tell the cops this,

Matthew?

Come on, Rom,

look at me.

Who do you think they're

going to believe, huh?

Me?

Or the great

David Leppenraub?

What sins have you committed?

Y- rays.

They're listening.

There's nothing you can do,

Matthew.

You and me, we're too small.

He knows that.

He likes that.

You know him?

You know Leppenraub?

I don't have to know him.

I know the man he works for.

You have any-any sins

to confess, my child?

Come on, Rom,

I feel ridiculous enough.

You can call me Daddy,

no one listening.

So what are we

doing here, Daddy?

Suppose I-I told you I knew

who killed Scotty Gates?

You did tell me

and my boss.

Just-Just hear me out.

Suppose I told you that Scotty Gates

was killed by a very famous artist?

And suppose I found a way to slip

you his name? David Leppenraub?

You-You know

about Leppenraub?

Apparently, everybody

knows about Leppenraub.

Scotty Gates was going all over town

crying how Leppenraub had abused him.

So what? I think the same

thing about my employer.

He told everyone

he was going to get revenge.

So, Lieutenant Cork made a call,

and Leppenraub said, yeah...

Gates had tried to blackmail him,

and he politely told Scotty

to go to hell.

Ya, and then he politely

murdered him.

- There's no evidence of that.

- Hell, there's a body in the tree.

Daddy, Gates was a nutcase.

No offense.

But he was running around in the

middle of winter with no shirt on.

Everyone thought he was

going to freeze to death.

We think it's reasonable for us to

assume that that's what happened.

Very, v-very reasonable,

except for one thing.

- What's that?

- He was murdered.

Daddy, you live in a cave.

You watch the news on a TV

that's plugged into nothing.

You think there's a guy on top of a tower

that's trying to take over the world.

You're not well. Why don't

you let me get you some help?

And just who would you get

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