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LaCroix: "Nicolas? What's wrong, my child?"
Nicolas: "I don't know."
LaCroix: "Did you not enjoy your meal?"
Nicolas: "But yes."

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LaCroix: "When they're as beautiful as she, the flesh is like the sweetest fruit, the blood like the rarest wine."

curious03.wav
LaCroix: "The palate is tingles, the brain intoxicated. It is ambrosia. There's nothing that compares."

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LaCroix: "Your first week of feeding has gone very well."

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LaCroix: "Give yourself time. You'll feel a little out of sorts for a while."

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LaCroix: "Of course - the last embers of your mortal conscience take a little time before they flare out completely."

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LaCroix: "It's the guilt, Nicolas. You haven't quite shed your mortality yet."

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LaCroix: "Perfectly - to a point. But there are dangers. You must kill this righteousness. Do this now and you will never question your nature again. But allow your guilt to fester, to grow and strengthen, and there will be consequences."

curious09.wav
LaCroix: "Of a type you need never experience so long as you listen to me. Do as I say."

curious10.wav
LaCroix: "Tonight we mourn the loss of a dear friend."

curious11.wav
LaCroix: "One moment so full of life, the next, what was lies shattered and broken. Irretrievable, beyond reach, beyond hope."

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LaCroix: "Do we ask ourselves, 'If there is a God, how can this happen?'"

curious13.wav
LaCroix: "Better to ask, 'If there is a God, must it be sane?'"

curious14.wav
LaCroix: "Guilt. That we all share in the collective sins of our past and that none will be forgiven."

curious15.wav
LaCroix: "Is this not so?"

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LaCroix: "Guilt is for the weak. To harbor it is to deny yourself freedom - to be a captive, a slave."

curious17.wav
LaCroix: "The strong know this. They do what must be done and think nothing of the consequences, and so they survive. Free - agree or diasgree? Discuss."

curious18.wav
LaCroix: "And who have we here?"
Unknown Caller: "Your assassin."
LaCroix: "(Laughter) Really."

curious19.wav
LaCroix: "My, my, we are in a mood tonight."

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LaCroix: "The sun was shining on the sea, shining with all his might. He did his very best to make the billows smooth and bright. And this was odd, because it was the middle of the night."

curious21.wav
LaCroix: "Is the sun shining in the middle of your night? Is your Wonderland getting curiouser and curiouser, as young
Alice would say?"

curious22.wav
LaCroix: "Is everything that you know wrong?"

curious23.wav
LaCroix: "Good. That's exactly how it should be, Nicolas. Yes, I am talking to you, Nicolas. From nowhere. From everywhere."

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LaCroix: "The time has come, the Walrus said, to speak of many things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings."

curious25.wav
LaCroix: "It's all nonsense, isn't it, poor Nicolas?"

curious26.wav
LaCroix: "Yes, all this guilt. That nice Ms. Lewis from Internal Affairs nearly had it right. I warned you, didn't I?"

curious27.wav
LaCroix: "Their unwitting little oyster pals. Mmm - so delicious and guilt-free."

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LaCroix: "They hardly gave their treachery a second thought, really. They were hungry, they ate - end of story. But our story still has to be played out."

curious29.wav
LaCroix: "I don't like being dead. It's...quite annoying, actually."

curious30.wav
LaCroix: "But I will have my revenge. My killer will pay and you will lead me to him, won't you?"

curious31.wav
LaCroix: "His vorpal blade went snick-a-snack."

curious32.wav
LaCroix: "Time to kill Papa."

curious33.wav
LaCroix: "As I said, Nicolas, now that you have led me to the killer, I will have my revenge."

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LaCroix: "Beware the Jabberwock, my son. The jaws that bite, the claws that catch."

curious35.wav
LaCroix: "Nicolas. Come to slay the Jabberwock?"

curious36.wav
LaCroix: "One-two, one-two, and through and through, his vorpal blade went snick-a-snack. Time to kill Papa."

curious37.wav
LaCroix: "And hast thou slayed the Jabberwock? Happy, Nicolas? Absolved? Free?"

curious38.wav
LaCroix: "Come to my arms, my beamish boy. Oh, frabjous day, calloo callay, he chortled in his joy."

curious39.wav
LaCroix: "Yes."

curious40.wav
LaCroix: "Here. This is all quite real."

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Nicolas: "But I didn't kill you. I couldn't have - not with a knife."
LaCroix: "Of course not."

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LaCroix: "I warned you about this many years ago. Of what would happen if you insisted on allowing your guilt to fester."

curious43.wav
LaCroix: "We do not have the capacity to contain it. When we become vampires, we lose that particular mortal gift."

curious44.wav
LaCroix: "To us, then, guilt is a disease that we cannot control."

curious45.wav
LaCroix: "It takes on a life of its own, so to speak. This life - this strange little world you've been living in.
It's all your guilt incarnate."

curious46.wav
LaCroix: "Confused? I shouldn't wonder. Examine the facts: you're married to Janette, having a torrid affair with your medical examiner friend, being bossed around by Schanke and confessing all to your captain."

curious47.wav
LaCroix: "Everything you feel guilty about and more. Eight centuries rising to haunt you. It's so unnecessary. If only you'd listened to me."

curious48.wav
LaCroix: "You must! Going through this state has only pushed the guilt back. It will surface again with more ferocity if you do not release it."

curious49.wav
LaCroix: "Then I'll do it for you."

curious50.wav
LaCroix: "This is hurting me far more than it's hurting you."