/ What was that?


/ Nothing. We're secure.


/ We'd better be.


/ Calm down. Whole district's been deserted ever since the Gap. Nobody's here.


/ Except us. Why'd he make us come out here?


/ Secrecy. I don’t know. He's our man on the inside; so we humor him. It's just the quiet making you jump. Help me get this screen set up?


/ It feels criminal.


/ I got word from the Consensus says it's not.


/ You know what I mean. Maybe it's not against any law. But it's messing with the Tower. It feels -


/ Dangerous?


/ Wrong.


/ So go home.


/ Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you? You take the credit, get promoted to Division Head, I'm stuck -


/ So stay. OK. Think it's working now.


/ Nothing on screen. Do we have a signal?


/ No. Sha - the contact said at 6 sharp.


/ Then he's late. If he dragged us out here for nothing -


/ Yeah? What are you going to do to him, exactly?


/ Let's just -


/ We have a signal! OK, here it comes.


/ Static.


/ There -


/ That's not -


/ You're not Sha -


/ 99-40. Arcite. Are you Modris Wyndham and Sya Droysen, of the Tex Mechanica Foundry West District?


/ Yes -


/ My owner has instructed me to give you the following message: I don't have time for lowlife dregs like you. You disgust me.


/ But -


/ My owner has instructed me to continue: Sit down and let the frame talk. I know your type. City bigshots. You can show some damn -


/ Listen -


/ respect. Now listen. I got your message. The answer is no. I'm -


/ But -


/ not going to fix Crucible fights for you idiots just to make your Tex Mechanica junk look good. Do you -


/ Now I wouldn't put it quite like that -


/ think you're the first dregs dumb enough to try to buy me? Why do you people think you can buy me? Don't I have an honest face? Do I look like I need your money? The Crucible is sacred, that's what you people don't understand, like you think it's a game. Now -


/ Damn.


/ this is the part where you start blustering at my little buddy here and telling him it's all legal down in the City, just business, just sponsorship. So listen: I can have ten Titans crashing through your ceiling any time I like and you can tell them it's just business.


/ Damn.


/ Or we can talk about how you're going to make this up to me.


/ Ah.


/ My little buddy's listening. Make him an offer.