Good strategy. I figured you weren't responsible for taking out Fortune after, uh, all that. Then again, if that was an act, it was a damn good one.
[He's giving her that excuse if she wants to take it, but he's assuming the breakdown was real.]
But you said the culprit was someone we hadn't even thought of yet. Is there someone out there like me? Pretending to be someone they're not?
[Granted, his own lines between pretending and being sincere are very blurred these days, but, still. He doubts most of the competition would peg him for a murderer.]
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Good strategy. I figured you weren't responsible for taking out Fortune after, uh, all that. Then again, if that was an act, it was a damn good one.
[He's giving her that excuse if she wants to take it, but he's assuming the breakdown was real.]
But you said the culprit was someone we hadn't even thought of yet. Is there someone out there like me? Pretending to be someone they're not?
[Granted, his own lines between pretending and being sincere are very blurred these days, but, still. He doubts most of the competition would peg him for a murderer.]
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I'm amazing at anything I do [except for being humble, apparently] so if I had been acting, I'd have been amazing at that too.
[she'll take that excuse, thanks.]
There are a lot of people playing pretend around here. The difference between you and them is you don't lie to yourself about who you are. They do.
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[He says it flatly. Ambition meant it as a compliment, no doubt, but Newt doesn't feel good about it.]
I still don't know why I'm doing any of this. I'm not lying to myself, but that doesn't mean I understand it.
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[...Well.]
I don't know. That'd be a waste of a wish. Besides, they'd kill me if I went through all this trouble just to learn something I don't need to know.
[He pauses. Why did he say that? He frowns, swallows. Shakes it off.]
So the, uh. Fortune's killer. They're not someone putting on an act, or at least not on purpose. Is that what you're saying?
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I'm not going to explain it. That's for you to figure out. You're a smart man, aren't you?
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Fine. I guess we're done here, then.
[He turns to go, but then:]
Are you really afraid of Fortune's killer?
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As long as the people I've spoken to hold up their ends of some bargains, I don't have anything to be afraid of anymore.
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[But she's not called Ambition for nothing. He heads out.]