ARQ Page #3

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Now? Why?

Ren, untie me.

What?

Torus agents interrogated me

for three days.

Then what?

Uh, they let me go

after they knew I had nothing to do

with you stealing their scrips.

And that you left without telling me.

Listen carefully.

Torus... Hannah!

I got this!

Ren, un... untie me.

What is it?

And Torus let you go?

Just like that?

Not just like that.

They took away my citizenship, our home.

They put me in a refugee camp

for six months.

I didn't know if you were dead,

or if you had just left me for dead.

I spent a year torturing myself,

feeling guilty that I got away

and you didn't.

They have a gun.

We should do what they say.

I already tried that.

Up north, Torus

security forces battle Bloc paramilitaries

over the Great Slave Lake Oil Refinery.

The refinery borders

the Arctic Parallel neutral zone.

Torus executives

accuse the Arctic Parallel

of providing a safe haven

for Bloc leaders.

Man, why you always

gotta listen to this propaganda?

Know thy enemy, my brother.

Yeah, well,

the Pope tells it like it really is.

Those who can't remember

the past are condemned to repeat it.

Are you okay?

Those guys hurt my back.

There's a bag up there.

Can you reach it?

Yeah, sure.

My supervisors called me a fraud

when I told them the ARQ

was generating limitless energy.

I couldn't really blame them, though.

Perpetual motion's a myth.

Then Torus seized the ARQ.

Now why take something that didn't work?

Because it does.

They want it back.

Torus wants the ARQ for their war machine.

You're crazy.

You've gone f***ing crazy.

Maybe.

It doesn't mean I'm wrong.

I know everything, Hannah.

Your boyfriend,

stealing my scrips for the Bloc...

Mother.

How?

You wouldn't believe me if I told you.

Are you really working for the Bloc,

or did Torus turn you?

Bloc.

We don't want your stupid machine.

- We came for your scrips.

- Right.

Sorry. You're a freedom fighter now.

I'm just some fool engineer

trying to solve the world's energy crisis.

And all this time I thought

you were just a self-serving thief.

I don't even know who you are anymore.

Yeah, that's right.

You don't.

Because you got away.

They kept the lights on

while I tried to sleep.

Kept me in darkness while I was awake.

They played the same Christmas song

over and over.

It never stopped.

I'm sorry.

You don't get to be sorry.

- You're too late for sorry.

- I never...

I never stopped thinking about you,

Hannah. I looked for you every day.

I hacked into every database I could,

tapped every network,

monitored every registry.

Finding you was the only thing

that kept me going.

I still hate you.

Okay.

So you're just gonna kill us now?

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