Shade - Agent Of Spite

Shade#34 (S2): Fault

[Modus]

... And there's your problem. You have to make people submit. Things won't just get better because you want them to.

[Shade]

It will get better.

[Modus]

You're lying to yourself. It doesn't get better no matter what you do. You're just putting a band-aid on a bullet hole. You see... no matter where you go people will always be against you. Because they want all of the stuff that you want too. Because they want it how they want it and when they want it. Whoever the hell you are, if you have to use Shade as a means of getting what you want, in terms of respect or protection, then you're not the person being respected or protected. Shade is, and at your core... you're not Shade. At your core... you're a negro who thinks that he can escape being a negro if he behaves.

[Shade]

I don't believe in that at all. Who the hell are you to tell me what I believe in the first place? And what's the matter with that? What's the matter with being a decent human being? Whatever happened to standards?

[Modus]

Do you hear yourself, negro? What happened to standards? When are you gonna grow up?

[Shade]

When everyone else does. You flip out at the slightest sign of opposition to an aggravated party. You overplay even the most minute of situations and call everyone else crazy for not agreeing with you. You're all pen, no ink.

[Modus]

No, you'll have to learn the hard way because you're too stubborn or too afraid to embrace what you should. Tell me something, what's the good in morality? It gets you nowhere. It leads nowhere. All you'll get is a whole bunch of fake friends and a fake life. It's better for people to be transparent and mean so that we're all on the same page.

[Shade]

I wish you were a better person.

[Modus]

Why? And I thought I told you not to talk to me that way. It's because I've chosen to be this way that I've gotten results. If I wanted a five-star woman who worked her whole life and built herself into something daddy could be proud of I could have her in her draws just because of my charisma. I could have whatever I wanted, whatever I looked for I could get it and I enjoyed it. You're the one whose hands will always be empty.

SHADE AND MODUS REACH THE EXIT OF THE CONSTRUCTION SITE. POLICE AND OTHER EMERGENCY RESPONDENTS WHO WERE CALLED TO THE CONSTRUCTION SITE BECAUSE OF THE COMMOTION RELAY AT SHADE'S POSITION AND THE POLICE TAKE MODUS AND PUT HIM INTO HANDCUFFS. MODUS OFFERS SO RESISTANCE WHEN BEING HANDED OVER TO THE PARAMEDICS.

[Cop#1]

Go!

THE COP PUSHES MODUS, MODUS' LEG GIVES OUT AND HE FALLS TO THE GROUND. SHADE THEN WALKS OVER TO THE COP.

[Shade]

Hey, don't do that!

[Modus]

...Well, would you look at that? Shade's running to my rescue?

[Cop#1]

Yeah, oddly suspicious. You've done far worse to perps.

[Shade]

Not while they were handcuffed.

[Cop#1]

What are you trying to push the panic button for? He defenestrated a cop and severed one of his arteries. That cop is fighting for his life right now because of that scumbag.