IF THERE'S ANY COMMUNICATIONS LEFT IN THE CACHE. YOU CHECK THE POLICE RECORD - SEE IF ANYTHING'S TURNED UP ON HIS VEHICLE. NICE. ADAM'S ONLY GONE A FEW HOURS AND YOU'RE GIVING OUT ORDERS. JUST DO IT, OKAY? HEY, IT'S A GOOD CALL. I'M WORRIED ABOUT HIM. YEAH, I KNOW. ME, TOO. YOU READY TO TELL ME ABOUT MADDOX? HE WAS AN OPERATIVE WHO WENT OVER THE LINE. I DIDN'T KNOW YOUR AGENCY HAD A LINE. EVERYONE HAS LINES. MADDOX WAS TRAINED TO CARRY OUT CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS. ASSASSINATIONS. WHY DON'T YOU JUST SAY IT? ARE YOU GOING TO LET ME SPEAK? HE FORGOT WHO HE WAS WORKING FOR. WITHOUT OUR KNOWING, HE'D SET UP HIS OWN ORGANIZATION TO PURSUE HIS OWN GOALS. YEAH. SO HE WAS DOING HIS DIRTY WORK INSTEAD OF YOURS. I CAN SEE HOW YOUR PEOPLE WOULD BE UNHAPPY ABOUT THAT. BEFORE YOU PICK APART OTHER PEOPLE'S ETHICS, ADAM, REMEMBER WHO IT IS WHO RUNS HIS OWN VIGILANTE FORCE. OR IS THAT "DIFFERENT" BECAUSE YOU'RE SO MORALLY SUPERIOR? MUTANT X PROTECTS PEOPLE. YOU TOOK AN ORPHAN KID, YOU PUT HIM INTO GENOMEX, YOU TURNED HIM INTO A HIGH-POWERED KILLER. I KNEW THERE WAS NO WAY TO GET YOU TO DO THE WORK WE NEEDED. THE REST OF GENOMEX WAS OPEN FOR BUSINESS. SO THE WHOLE TIME WE WERE TOGETHER YOU USED ME TO GET TO THE PEOPLE WHO COULD GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANTED. IT WASN'T LIKE THAT. NO? MY SUPERIORS KNEW I WAS WITH YOU. I WAS GIVEN ORDERS. OH, ORDERS, RIGHT. THE CLASSIC WAY TO AVOID RESPONSIBILITY. YOU GOT WHAT YOU NEEDED. THE PEOPLE I SET YOU UP WITH HELPED FINANCE YOUR EXIT FROM GENOMEX. WITHOUT THEM YOU'D NEVER HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PUT MUTANT X TOGETHER. THAT SEEMED TO BE ALL YOU CARED ABOUT BACK THEN. RIGHT. BECAUSE I WAS TRYING TO PLUG A LEAK IN THE DAM, BECAUSE YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE WERE BUSY MAKING MONSTERS LIKE MADDOX - BEHIND MY BACK. YOU HAD YOUR MISSION. I HAD MINE. DON'T BLAME ME FOR US FALLING APART. IT'S STARTED. A FEW MORE MINUTES. THEN YOU GET EVERYTHING YOU CAME FOR. HOW LONG? SIX BOLTS. TEN MINUTES PER BOLT. ANOTHER TWO MINUTES TO PACK THE EXPLOSIVES. AND ANOTHER MINUTE TO PRIME THEM. SO WHAT HAVE WE GOT? SEVENTY-EIGHT MINUTES BEFORE HE GETS IN HERE. I SUPPOSE THAT NUMBER HAS YOUR USUAL LEVEL OF ACCURACY? WELL, THERE'S NO ROOM FOR ERROR. NOW WE JUST HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO TURN THE TABLES. TURN THE TABLES? ARE YOU CRAZY? YOU'RE STANDING HERE ANALYZING DOOR THICKNESS AND DRILL RATIOS LIKE YOU REALLY BELIEVE IT'S GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. DO YOU THINK OUR SURVIVAL IS SOMETHING YOU CAN WORK OUT BY THE NUMBERS? WHY ARE YOU SO SURE IT ISN'T? SEE, THAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH YOU. YOU ARE SO DAMNED BLINKERED. YOU THINK THAT EVERYTHING CAN BE SOLVED BY SCIENCE. WELL, I'LL TAKE SCIENCE OVER ESPIONAGE ANY DAY OF THE WEEK. OH, THIS COMING FROM THE MAN WHO SAT AT THE CENTRE OF THE BIGGEST SCIENTIFIC DISASTER THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN. I'M SORRY, ADAM. I'M SORRY, OKAY? I DON'T KNOW. IT'S JUST EVERYTHING WITH YOU IS SO CLEAR CUT, SO BLACK AND WHITE. GOOD OR EVIL. WELL, YOU KNOW, MAYBE ONE OF US HAS TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. WHETHER YOU WANT TO ADMIT IT OR NOT, IT'S ALL ABOUT SHADES OF GREY. I DON'T WANT TO GET MY HEAD AROUND A WORLD LIKE THAT, WHERE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, PRETEND TO BE LOVERS, WHERE PEOPLE WARP THE TRUTH TO GET WHAT THEY WANT. YOU ARE STILL SO POMPOUS. IT'S LIKE YOU HAVE A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE TRUTH. IT'S LIKE YOU SEE IT SO CLEARLY, BUT NO ONE ELSE HAS A CLUE. WELL, I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE ON YOUR TEAM, ADAM, BECAUSE WITH YOU, IT'S NOT ABOUT TEAMWORK. IT'S ABOUT EGO. AND FOR ALL YOUR IDEALISM, IT'S STILL A ONE MAN SHOW. OH, THIS IS SO WEIRD. COME HERE, CHECK IT OUT. CHECK THIS OUT. THANKS. YEAH. OKAY. ADAM ERASED THE CACHE MEMORY IN HIS COMPUTER. BUT HE LEFT A HISTORY FILE IN ONE OF THE PROGRAMS HE WAS RUNNING. WHAT PROGRAM? WELL, IT'S KIND OF A... A NET TRACKING PROGRAM. IT LOOKS AS IF HE WAS HUNTING DOWN SOMEBODY HE WAS ON A SCRAMBLED CONNECTION WITH. SHOW THE RESULTS? ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Торпедоносцы на английском - текст Сибирский цирюльник на английском - текст Ночь и день на английском - текст Кавказский пленник на английском - текст Иваново детство на английском |