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Part Seven: Sudden Death
“We’ve got a blind date with destiny -- and it looks like she ordered the lobster.” --William H. Macy, Mystery Men
The next person to make a dramatic entrance into the diner that morning was Mike the TV; he had caught the entire melee on tape and was now seeking follow-up interviews with its participants. Unfortunately, the participants weren’t cooperating.
“Not now, Mike. I have work to do.”
“No comment, sugah.”
“Get that microphone out of my face before I ram it up your --”
“Matrix!”
Cecil reemerged at this point. “I am glad you are all here,” he began. “I have been looking over zee game list, and zree of zee remaining players’ assassins have been taken out. So, to give zee last player a zporting chance, zee game must go into Zudden Death. Zee remaining players must figure out who is still in and take zem out until only one is left.” Naturally, this little bombshell raised quite a few eyebrows. The occupants of the diner exchanged glances; everyone had a pretty good idea who was still in, so they knew exactly who to go after. This would be as easy as Pi squared.
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Roughly one millisecond later, Ray came back to the diner. “Well, I’m out.”
Dot was right behind him. “Copy that.”