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Part 51 of the walkthrough of Mass Effect 2 for the PC.
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00:00According to CSEC reports, Arkin was taken into custody, and charges are pending.
00:10Also according to CSEC, Adrel recently passed through customs.
00:13The CSEC office may have more information.
00:30Yes?
00:39My associate is trying to find his son. We think a local criminal may have hired him.
00:44That should be easy. We don't see many Drell here.
00:50There we go. One of my men reported a Drell recently.
00:54And he was talking to Mouse. Interesting.
00:58Mouse?
00:58Ah, petty criminal. Probably not the guy who hired your boy, but a messenger.
01:03He's a former ducked rat. Runs errands for anyone who'll pay.
01:07What sort of trouble has Mouse been getting himself into?
01:10Odd jobs for shifty people.
01:13Ducked rats take whatever is available to get by.
01:15Data running, fencing stolen goods, selling illegal VI personalities.
01:21Actually, he was selling one of you.
01:24Me?
01:24Yeah. When you erased a file, it would say, I delete data like you on the way to real errors.
01:30Buggy, though. It crashed every half hour.
01:32The error message was about how the galaxy was at stake, and you should fix the problem yourself.
01:37What was it you called, Mouse?
01:40A ducked rat.
01:42It's a local slang for the poor kids who grow up in the station.
01:46When they're small, they tend to play in the ventilation ducts where adults can't get to them.
01:50Aren't the ducts dangerous?
01:51Every couple of months, we pull a little body out of them.
01:55Lacerated by fan blades, broken by a deadfall, suffocated by vacuum exposure.
02:02Those are just the ones we know about.
02:05More just disappear. Maybe they get sucked into space.
02:09Maybe they fall into the protein vats the Keepers run.
02:12Mouse survived long enough that he can't fit in the ducts anymore.
02:16He was one of the smarter ones, or the luckier ones.
02:21I've heard enough.
02:22Mouse is usually upstairs outside the Dark Star.
02:25He works out of a public comm terminal.
02:28You should pick up a copy of the Shepard V.I. when you talk to him.
02:31It sounds like your boy is running with the wrong crowd.
02:34Yes, I agree.
02:36If Mouse can't get you in touch with your son directly, he'll know who can.
02:40I'll help you if you need it.
02:41You don't know us, Captain. Why are you going so far to help us?
02:44Yes. I've worked to Kara for two years.
02:47Every day kids turn to crime because they've got no other choice.
02:50Because their parents don't care.
02:53You're trying to save yours.
02:56He faces a dark path.
02:58We better hurry, then.
03:02You didn't tell him that Kolyat plans to assassinate someone.
03:06He's a cop. He tried to stop Kolyat and one of them could end up dead.
03:09I don't want that.
03:10Yes, of course.
03:13Thank you, Shepard.
03:13Fine, fine. I just need to pick up some spices.
03:24Amino dexterous and amino sinister, if you have it.
03:27You don't mix your spice curality.
03:29What cooking school did you say you went to?
03:31I don't go to cooking school.
03:32I just want something tasty to put on a steak.
03:35Why don't you just go to Fishdog Food Factory?
03:37It's on level 23.
03:39Ask for their tummy-tingling tachanka sauce.
03:52I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel.
03:55I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel.
04:25I'm Commander Shepard.
04:55He sent me here. Come on, why do I need a service order?
04:58The wards market? Why would you come to a Zekera Ward warehouse?
05:01He said they're out of stock, and I should go here.
05:03He didn't say anything about a service order.
05:05Without a service order, I really can't help you.
05:08Tupari, now available with dextro-amino acids.
05:33I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel.
05:45I trust you, Michael.
05:46What medical upgrades do you want to get for him?
05:48I don't know. Maybe we should ask random people on the street what they think.
05:51I'm getting the immuno booster.
05:53I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel.
06:01Let's go.
06:31You think there's any place on board we could buy a fish?
06:49They don't like live animals on the Citadel.
06:52Wasted life support capacity, they say.
07:01I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel.
07:20Yeah, yeah, I can get that.
07:30No problem.
07:32Yeah, sure.
07:33I can get you two cases by the end of the day.
07:35You Mouse?
07:36What are you...
07:37Oh, shit.
07:38Krios.
07:39I thought you were tired.
07:43Commander Shepard?
07:44I thought you'd die, but what do you want with me?
07:48Be still, Mouse.
07:49You can change your pants in a moment.
07:51How do you know Thane?
07:53Krios?
07:54He didn't...
07:55If he didn't say nothing, I ain't either.
07:58When we heard the name, I didn't think it could be the same Mouse.
08:01He was a contact on the Citadel when I was active.
08:04He and some other children would gather information on my targets.
08:07You put children in danger to spy for you?
08:10Children?
08:10The poor.
08:11My people's word for their kind is Dralafah, the ignored.
08:15They're everywhere, see everything.
08:17Yet they are never seen.
08:21You gave another Dral instructions for an assassination.
08:24Who's the target?
08:25I don't know.
08:26I didn't ask.
08:28Because the people I work for...
08:29They can make me disappear.
08:31I'd like to help you, Krios.
08:33You've always done right by us, but...
08:35I ain't gonna die for you.
08:37Look, you know Thane.
08:38He wouldn't ask if it wasn't important.
08:40Do it for him.
08:41I want to.
08:43He was always nice to us.
08:45But these people ain't nice, Krios.
08:48Nobody's gonna know you talk to us.
08:50Mouse, I swear that you won't be named.
08:52All right, all right.
08:55He came with that hollow you took of me.
08:57He said he wanted a job.
08:59I ran through your old contacts to see who might give him a shot.
09:02The guy who offered was Elias Kellum.
09:07One other thing.
09:08That Shepard VI you're selling?
09:10Oh, shit.
09:10You heard...
09:11Look, you were dead.
09:12It was totally legal to make a VI of you.
09:15Give me a copy.
09:16We'll call it even.
09:17What?
09:18I mean, sure.
09:19Yeah, absolutely.
09:21Sorry about the whole...
09:22Just so you know, there's three Volus who are patching it all the time.
09:26Tell me about Kellum.
09:28Human.
09:29Moved to the Citadel about ten years ago.
09:32He was little people when you were here, Krios.
09:33He got big after the geth attack.
09:37Lots of the big guys from before got cacked, all in the big fancy apartments up on the Presidium.
09:42Now he runs the rackets on the lower end of the ward.
09:44Shin Akiba.
09:46He's seriously bad news.
09:50You did good, Mouse.
09:51Yeah.
09:52I hope I live long enough to pat myself on the back.
09:55Kellum will never know.
09:57I hope not.
09:58I'm out of here, Krios.
10:00Next time you're in town, just don't bring the family.
10:11That couldn't have been easy.
10:13Mouse knew more about my life than Kolyat ever did.
10:16He smiles up at me, broken teeth and scabby knees.
10:19Bare feet black.
10:20A dead-end future, looking up at me.
10:22Worshipping the petty gifts I offer.
10:26I was the only good thing he had back then.
10:30But I left him, as I left Kolyat.
10:34Mouse said you had a hollow of him.
10:35Yes.
10:37A foolish bit of sentimentality.
10:40I can perfectly recall every moment I spent with Mouse.
10:43He pulls at my arm.
10:45Smiles.
10:46He wants to know that I'll remember him.
10:48That anyone will remember him.
10:50I take the hollow.
10:51He smiles at himself in miniature on my palm.
10:54Then a frown crinkles his brow.
10:56He pats my pockets, checking for other hollows.
10:59Where's your son, Krios, he asks.
11:04Don't blame yourself.
11:05If I don't, who will?
11:07We must carry the weight of our decisions, Shepard.
11:09You, of all people, know this.
11:11Let's head back to Bailey.
11:12Wait.
11:13Wait.
11:14Once still.
11:28I'll wait.
11:36I'll wait.
11:37Yes?
11:49Can we talk about my associate's son?
11:51You talked to Mouse? Did you get the name of the guy he's working with?
11:55Elias Kellum.
11:57Kellum? Shit.
12:01Look, this is awkward.
12:03Kellum and I have an agreement.
12:04He doesn't cause too much trouble and buys tickets to the C-Sec charity ball from me in return.
12:12I ignore him.
12:14He pays you off.
12:15You were eager to help us before. What about now? Is it too inconvenient?
12:21I said I'd help. It's just there'll be repercussions if I don't handle it right.
12:25He and I give each other space. It keeps the peace.
12:29I'll get some of my people to bring him in and set him up in a private room.
12:32You can interrogate him yourself.
12:35I'll stay out of sight, and if I'm lucky, Kellum will believe that I had nothing to do with it.
12:41Bring him in. We might not have much time.
12:43I'll make it happen. Wait here.
12:45We've got Kellum. Tell Bailey we're ready.
13:10You'll expect me to get him out of this?
13:12Not today, I think.
13:17Captain, his lawyer's here.
13:19Bet Elias has his V.I. set to page him if C-Sec gets within ten meters.
13:24I'll stall him. Get in there and work fast.
13:29We should question him together. Keep the pressure on.
13:33Thoughts on how we approach it?
13:34I plan to improvise. No plan survives contact with the enemy anyway.
13:41I suppose that's true. I won't interfere then. This will be difficult.
13:45If we're too gentle with him, his advocate will get past Bailey.
13:48If we're too rough... well... we need him alive.
13:54Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
13:56I place my faith in you, Shepard.
14:02Get me out of these restraints, Bailey. Pretty funny bringing me down here like this.
14:07The hell are you two?
14:08Bailey has nothing to do with this. We just want a few answers.
14:25Off the record.
14:27Off the record in a C-Sec interrogation room?
14:30Sure.
14:31You hired an assassin. Who do you want dead?
14:33I want to see my advocate. You two are in way over your heads. Bailey won't let you touch me.
14:41Bailey doesn't know you're here. But he will. After we're done.
14:45What, kid? You gonna bore me into confessing? You ain't shit. Come on, hit me. I dare you.
14:52No, huh? Didn't think you had the balls.
14:57Think carefully, Elias. I want to catch the assassin, not you. Why stick your neck out for him?
15:02You want me to confess to putting a contract on someone? You think I'm stupid?
15:08I get the name, I walk out. You never see me again.
15:11I got no reason to believe you.
15:19This isn't working, Shepard. We're making no progress.
15:22Are we done here? Because I got people to see.
15:30Goddamn waste of my time.
15:32How about this? You tell us the target, you never see us again. And Bailey drops his price, 50%.
15:39Yeah? Can I get that in writing?
15:42I don't think either of us want this in writing.
15:45All right. I ain't going to jail for the tadpole. And I do love a bargain.
15:50Joram Talid. Joram Talid. Turian running for office on the Zakir Award. He messes with legitimate businessmen. I'm going to stop it.
15:59Where and when?
16:01His apartment. The 800 blocks. You better hurry.
16:05What's going on here? Get away from my client.
16:07You... you played me!
16:09I've enjoyed our chat, Elias. Thanks for your help.
16:13This isn't over.
16:15Nicely done.
16:17Wait. You got what you wanted.
16:19Who ratted me out?
16:21Well, I guess you'll have something to think about while you're in here, huh?
16:24I'll find out. And once I have a name...
16:28Elias, as your legal advocate, I advise you to shut the hell up.
16:32Where were you five minutes ago?
16:34Held up in traffic.
16:43What's the story? Why'd Callum hire the boy?
16:46Assassination. A Turian named Joram Talid. You know him?
16:50Joram. Yeah. You might have seen his posters around. He's promising to end organized crime on the ward.
16:57Thing is, his message is all mixed up in race politics. He's anti-human.
17:03Are things so bad that people can openly campaign as anti-human?
17:06Before the Battle of the Citadel, the alien population thought we were violent upstarts.
17:11Look what's happened since then. A human fleet guarding the station for months?
17:15Sea sect filled with humans?
17:17Udina doesn't hesitate to remind them that we earned our place here.
17:22But that seems to piss them off more.
17:25If a majority votes for him, like it or not, that's how the system works.
17:29That's a nice ideal, Shepard.
17:32Sergeant, get a patrol car. These two need to get to the 800 blocks.
17:37Yes, sir.
17:37Yes, sir.
17:47There he is. How do you want to play this?
18:07Follow Talid on the maintenance cat box.
18:09Tell me what he's doing.
18:11The Krogan bodyguard will make him easy to follow.
18:12Where will you be?
18:18The darkest corner with the best view.
18:26Amonkira, Lord of Hunters, grant that my hands be steady, my aim be true, and my feet swift.
18:32And should the worst come to pass, grant me forgiveness.
18:36Yes.
18:45Yes.
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