00:00.
00:47Some falls don't begin in the sky.
00:50They begin in quiet rooms with friendly voices and fondue bottles.
00:56Mine started a few weeks back.
00:58The sky was just the exit wound.
01:02It began with a call.
01:04Routine.
01:05Familiar.
01:06Wanda from the Mouseberg Herald.
01:09Usually she swings by the office with a lead.
01:12If it pans out, she hears it first.
01:15Simple, really.
01:16She gets her story, I get a few bucks to stockpile cheese, and for a moment, Mouseberg gets to
01:22breathe easy.
01:23But that day was different.
01:27She was tight-lipped.
01:30Meat on sight, details later.
01:32There had to be someone big, recognizable.
01:36The kind that only says, oops, when they remember their mortal too.
01:41Something within me, old instinct, baby.
01:45I said, turn back.
01:47Let this one go.
01:49Let this one go.
01:50That this case was more trouble than it was worth.
01:52But, well, trouble is what I do.
02:10It didn't seem like much at first.
02:13Wasn't even sure it was a case, but the job still didn't hand me.
02:17Felt like I stepped right on a buried mine.
02:21The mess with the shrews, well, ruckus don't seem to cut it.
02:28Poor bastards.
02:30I was in too deep.
02:32Way deeper than I signed up for.
02:36Still, Tim.
02:38He shoved me into this mess.
02:40Now it's his turn to pull me back out.
02:58It was a day like any other.
03:01Until her.
03:03The woman.
03:05Ah, that woman.
03:07She waltzed into my office like she owned the place.
03:12Didn't have to say a word.
03:14I saw her voice the moment she walked through the door.
03:18Wrapped in makeup and a cloud of perfume reserved for the sleaziest Tinsel Brothers' body.
03:25Ah, that voice.
03:27Not a contralto.
03:29The contralto.
03:31Thick.
03:32Rough.
03:33Tough.
03:33Like gorgonzola picante slapped on her mozzarella platter.
03:39Monsieur Jacques?
03:48Who the heck are you?
03:50Beat it, or I'm calling my dad right now.
03:53Dad?
03:54Of course.
04:00Picking up phones in weird places wasn't really my game.
04:04But this one was asking for it.
04:07Hello?
04:09Betty Lynch's scratch of the picture.
04:13What?
04:14And the cheese curds have crumbled.
04:18This is the operator.
04:20There's been a murder at the secret show.
04:21Miles Curd is dead.
04:24I repeat, Miles Curd is dead.
04:36Never meet your heroes, they say.
04:39And sometimes, they are dead right.
04:44Sims, the shining star of the force, turned out to be the mastermind behind the crooked cops
04:52and the shrew kidnappings.
04:53He didn't just bite off more than he could chew.
04:57He crossed a mouse that once believed in him.
05:01At least the shrews are safe now.
05:04As for my problems...
05:07Well...
05:08Nothing a glass or two of John's best fondue can't smooth over.
05:21Seeing Steve again wasn't the clean break I wanted.
05:24Cause he was still dirty.
05:27Still a bastard.
05:29Still that cynical son of her.
05:32But he was my war buddy.
05:35And he wasn't dead.
05:37Part of me hated that I felt relief.
05:40Maybe he changed.
05:42Maybe he finally grew a conscience.
05:44Or maybe...
05:46I'm a fool.
05:47Growing yet another soft spot.
05:50Maybe.
05:52In the end we're all just cobs in some rich man's machine.
05:57Grinding away until we break.
06:08That woman.
06:10Sure she got away.
06:12But it didn't feel like a bust.
06:14The mystery was solved.
06:17That's gotta count for something, right?
06:19Still, it's a shame we cracked a few too many eggs making this omelette au fromage.
06:28All's well and done.
06:30Until it ain't.
06:32C'est la vie.
06:40After a day like that, night had to come in swinging.
06:45And boy did it.
06:46Armed with half full glasses of John's finest fondue, a pillow, and some overdue shut eye.
06:53I was out cold.
06:55Feverish.
06:56The cases.
06:57Smoke and mirrors mostly.
06:59Just...
07:00Some of it burned too hot.
07:03And way too vivid.
07:05Was it all just a dream?
07:07A cheese party aftermath or...
07:11I woke up just when the smoke got real.
07:14And sure enough, there was fire.
07:17The real kind.
07:18The kind that consumes...
07:21Everything.
07:25I was in the trenches.
07:27Never caught the foot.
07:29Watched the sky rip like paper while artillery wailed overhead.
07:33We made the breach, deep behind enemy lines.
07:37And lived to tell the tale.
07:39But life...
07:41Life's a special kind of turd.
07:44Breaks anyone, if it feels like.
07:47My office, a pile of ash.
07:50Evidence, gone.
07:53So, I sat down and I had a drink.
07:58Then a few hundred more.
08:00For the first time, I didn't know what came next.
08:04Good thing someone else did.
08:06Hey, Jack!
08:08He said.
08:09Since you're in deep and I'm the magician, let me be your deus ex machina for real.
08:17Steve.
08:18That son of a bitch.
08:21Always had one more race up his sleeve.
08:24Told me, from the frickin' beyond, he'd made a habit of recording his shadier contacts.
08:30And he left...
08:32A tape...
08:34In a perch with a view.
08:37Somewhere in that mansion of his was the best and frankly...
08:41The only bet I had.
08:44Welcome to the trap, mouse!
08:48All right, Sawyer, this is it.
08:50The end of the line.
08:52And I'd have gotten away with it too!
08:54If it weren't for you, you meddling mouse!
08:57Nuh-uh.
08:58Not without Curd feeding you orders.
09:00A puppet's just dead wood without a pulling hand.
09:04How dare you!
09:06Without me!
09:07BMP will find someone else.
09:09Maybe not as camera friendly, sure.
09:11But just as easy to steer.
09:13Cause let's face it, Sawyer.
09:14You couldn't scheme your way out of a running wheel.
09:17You're just not that smart.
09:19Ah!
09:20You!
09:20You, you, you!
09:22Why won't you just die already?
09:26Enough of all this, you damn mouse!
09:28Your little stunt changes nothing, you hear!
09:31Nothing will break BMP!
09:35Time to end this nightmare rally!
09:51I must squash you like a bug.
09:54Your goons go down that I'm coming for you.
09:57I was supposed to save this for a special occasion.
10:00Oh, well.
10:03Excelsior!
10:05Uh, something.
10:07Alright, this is it.
10:09End of the line.
10:11Oh, just shut your damn mouth!
10:14You're a dead mouse!
10:15Dead!
10:30En מה character.
10:31It'll be OK!
10:32My body'll be...
10:34OK!
10:36Right?!
10:36Right?
10:37I'll see you later Pal.
10:40Ugh, that...
10:41that was just crap.
10:42I'm gonna use it.
10:43Burn that one!
10:45Don't use that one.
10:46Oh, no!
11:20John, you still in one piece?
11:24More or less.
11:25Those acid-swimming sharks wouldn't at all excess you.
11:30Man, hell of a tale to tell over some melted cheese, huh?
11:35Well, don't jinx it.
11:36We're still on a ticking blimp.
11:38Saw some evac planes in the back when they dragged me in.
11:41But hey, did we win?
11:42Is this thing finally over?
11:44Well, define over.
11:46what was that nothing let's get out of here i bet tammy's all right what a wild ride huh john
11:55is
11:55safe tammy made it through the crooks are down the little guys are up with a shot at a better
12:03tomorrow a couple of days of peace if we're lucky still something tells me there are cheese strings
12:12out there yet to be unraveled but today i'm done ah who am i kidding the journey goes on
12:23straight through the night hoping dawn remembers the show
13:10i've been gone
13:12i've been gone
13:13i've been gone
13:39i've been gone
13:42i've been gone
14:39i've been gone
15:09criminal
15:11i've been gone
15:39i've been gone
15:40i've been gone
15:55i've been gone
16:09i've been gone
16:10i've been gone
16:10i've been gone
16:11because i've been gone
16:18i've been gone
16:18i've been gone
16:18oh
16:20i'm
16:39i'm
16:52guitar solo
17:21guitar solo
17:42guitar solo
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