Strip 803 -- First Seen: 2011-10-14
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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Pierre in Guy's apartment, on the comm. He is sheathing the sword. The sheath is intricately decorated.
Pierre: That barbarian actually raised his fist to strike me after I slapped him.
Pierre: When I challenged him, he just stared at me, agape, like a silly ass.
Panel 2
Close-up of Pierre, veins sticking out of his forehead in barely-suppressed rage.
Pierre: Then he, and everyone in the bar, started laughing at me!
Panel 3
Cut to the scene at the bar several minutes ago. We are looking from the bartender's side of the bar, where Pierre is slapping Henry (for a second time). Not a hard slap – more like an effete wrist-flip slap. We can see Suki (the Thai 'ladyboy' from the Trial & Error arc) on the other side of Henry from Pierre. We can also see some other bar patrons in the near background. They are all looking non-plussed.
Henry is tall and lanky and looks something this guy:
http://www.nhunderground.com/wiki/show_image.php?id=3296&scalesize=0&nocount=y
http://freestateproject.org/images/FTLhosts180x180.jpg (the guy on the right)
Caption (Pierre): 'That stopped quickly enough when I slapped him again and repeated the challenge.'
Panel 4
Same shot – now Terry is looking serious. The patrons in the background are hushed, glancing side-ways at each other. Suki just looks annoyed.
Caption (Pierre): 'He lowered his fist and told me to have my Second contact his Second … his Asian lady companion.
Panel 5
Cut to Guy in his office, with his comm held up to his ear. He's rubbing his right temple with his right hand.
Guy: Pierre, that was no lady, that was ...
Guy: … oh, never mind, I will explain it to you later.

Panel 6
Different angle on Guy, looking annoyed.
Guy: I assume I am your Second?
Pierre (filtered): Yes, of course.
Guy: Then I will contact Suki and make the arrangements.

Panel 7
Now Guy is holding the comm in front of his face, looking directly at it, while touching a corner of the comm face with a finger of the other hand.
Guy: By the way Pierre, no matter how this turns out, you really screwed the pooch on this one.
SFX: BA-DEEP

Panel 8
Guy leans forward on his desk, elbows on the desk top, lightly holding his head with fingers on each hand spread across his temples, looking quite put-out.
Guy (thought): Now what am I going to do to stop this foolishness?