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Take another shot of courage
Wonder why the right words never come
You just get numb
It's another tequila sunrise
this old world still looks the same,
Another frame
-The Eagles

(Liam Jenson sits out on his front porch. Daybreak has just risen and Liam is still drinking Tequila straight out of the bottle as he looks out from his trailer.)

Jenson: They say the number one killer of old people is retirement. People got a job to do, they tend to live a little longer so they can do it. I've always figured warriors and their enemies share the same relationship.

(Liam knocks another of the warm amber liquid back.)

Jenson: I may have become bitter about what I do but I keep doing it cause I know the day I stop doing this job is the day I die. It’s like that for a lot of the old dogs. Legends just give it up one day and fade out. The pups in this business don’t know what their getting themselves into.

Alec: Maybe you’re just a sadist.

(Liam’s little brother Alec walks out on the porch, obviously with a hangover and takes a seat next to his brother.)

Jenson: Do you find me sadistic?

Alec: With all you drink yeah. How come you never get hangovers?

Jenson: Cause I never quit drinking.

Alec: Guess that makes sense and all.

(Liam offers his brother a drink but the young man shakes his head no and looks like he’d rather puke.)

Jenson: I bet I could fry an egg on your head about now, if I wanted to. I'd like to believe, even now, you're aware enough to know there isn't a trace of sadism in my actions. It’s just in my nature to act the way I do.

Alec: (sarcastic) Oh you’re not insane. You don’t love to leave a man bleeding in the ring. You just break their heads in a toilet and set them on fire.

Jenson: OK maybe towards those other jokers.

Alec: So are you expecting to hurt any of those guys in the ring on Monday?

Jenson: I’m not going to break any of ‘em. Just play with them a bit. Maybe snap GAROU and Polaris’s backs. Twist the neck of that little annoying Chuckster kid…

Alec: Does anybody like him?

Jenson: Shaman seems to have taken a shine to him.

Alec: (sarcastic) That’s just a great mentor there.

Jenson: Are you being a smartass again?

Alec: Who knows. (mocking) It’s in my nature.

Jenson: Anyway as for Khaled and Desolation well Kal boyo I don’t much care for people trudging on the American way so you can either get over it or go back to the EWA. Desolation’s style I like but if he keeps running with losers his stock is going to go down.

Alec: So what now?

Jenson: Breakfast, steak and eggs.

(Apparently the thought is so sickening to Alec that he holds his mouth and makes a bum rush to the door causing his brother to just laugh as we being to…)

FADE OUT