Patrick Kenzie

[The feed clicks on to reveal a guy who definitely isn't here usually, sitting in Patrick's apartment, looking relatively okay with the whole being in on a space prison ship, even if he's actually pretty annoyed about it. Patrick is totally affected, and doesn't remember the Barge, but he's smart enough to have put most of the stuff together by this point.]

Alright. Just so we're clear, my name's Patrick Kenzie. I'm still a PI from Boston, but I'm not the guy who's here normally. And as much fun as it's been listening to all of you, I've got a case I need to get back to, so I'm seconding everyone else's questions and requests or whatever to get home as fast as possible.

As interesting an experience as this has been, [A touch of sarcasm, why is the other Patrick here willingly.] between people just pointing and laughing at the guy being attacked by bees, and Batman the child abuser, this place seems like a real goddamn nightmare.

[ooc: Patrick is his book counterpart, specifically from during A Drink Before the War, which is the first book in the series Gone Baby Gone is from. This isn't to say that the books are "bad" canon, so much as just. pretty overdramatic canon. Also he kills people a lot, which takes away a lot of the poignancy of GBG and just. yes. The books are about as subtle as a brick to the face. STILL PRETTY OKAY ALL THINGS CONSIDERED just the movie is better and handles the story in a much more poignant way. >.>;

Also he's Ben Affleck because Ben almost cast himself as Patrick in the film, but gave it to Casey instead so he could focus on directing. Patrick is older and a more seasoned detective in the books, his dad was legitimately crazy, he hasn't dated Angie - who is actually currently married to an abusive husband - and in general he's a little more trigger happy.]

You know, call me crazy guys, but I'm pretty sure callin' attention to all this is just gonna make it worse. I'm not sayin' we don't need to keep it all under wraps? But it's been my experience guys like this tend to cool off when you don't give the people who stahted it the reaction they're lookin' foah. So how about we go back to our regularly scheduled discussions of whatevah's on our minds and let the people involved sort the rest of it out? Sound good?

On that note, I've been told I've gotta keep talkin' about the Sox, to make sure you guys don' forget about 'em. As fah as pahtin' requests go, don' think that's gonna be all that outta the question to live up to.

Not like I knew Donowitz well oah anythin', but there's somethin' about being from Boston - oah places like it, I guess - that kinda gives you some kinda connection to everyone else who lives there. Especially Boston. More then a place like New Yawk oah somethin', sometimes, 'cause we're so caught up in our history and wheah we all come from. It's your city, your neighborhood... it's all tied into who you ah and how you got there. We almost stahted a fuckin' riot ovah people wantin' to knock down Fenway foah a new stadium 'cause it mattered to us. That's our ballpahk, that's our statehouse, and fuck anyone who wants to change it.

Wheah I'm from, people take pride in all that, all that history and wheah you grew up, even if it was a "bad neighborhood". You wear it like a medal of honor oah somethin', like you survived and you're still surviving. You're proud of where you came from.

And I'm not gonna lie and say my childhood was fuckin' perfect oah whatever, but that flood kinda got me thinkin' about if I coulda done things different, grown up in a different neighborhood oah city oah whatever, would I?

But even if growin' up in Dorchester wasn't exactly life in some quiet little suburbia wheah everyone runs around with no locks on their doors 'cause it's so safe oah somethin', it's wheah I'm from, you know? I love the place anyway.

And I'm definitely not sayin' Boston's all bad oah anythin' foah people who visit oah for the people who live there. We've got the Sox, the Garden, the Commons, like a thousand different colleges and universities... It's a hell of a lot nicer then New York - no offense to the rest of you oah anythin' - and it's really a beautiful city. I don't even have problems with Southie or Roxbury oah anythin'. It's a paht of it, just as much as anythin'.

I've lived on the same block my whole life, an' if I didn't make a deal, I'd still be there, with the same people I went to grade school with and whatever. And I don't have a problem with that. I'm proud of wheah I'm from and I wouldn't change it if I had a chance.

So, what about the rest of you? You wanna change wheah you grew up oah you love it anyway because it's yours?

Anyone fuckin' up foah doin' anything foah St. Patrick's day around heah, or are we all too still caught up in whatever's got everyone worked up today to bother with that kinda thing?