E3 - The Witch's Pastime: Final Act

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SIGN    The Witch's Pastime:
    Final Act
[01:52] Haines
    We suspect a witch, based on
    the overwhelming power.
[01:56] Haines
    Then there are the messages
    left at the crime scenes.
[01:59] Haines
    Each one points to the killer being a witch.
[02:03] Ashaf
    Oh? For example?
[02:05] Haines
    "I live on and on without change.
    I bear heir after heir without change."
[02:09] Haines
    Do you know what that points to?
[02:11] Ashaf
    A witch. Witches don't age
    and their health doesn't decline.
[02:15] Ashaf
    And a witch's power is
    passed on to her descendants,
[02:18] Ashaf
    so even having children doesn't change th—
[02:21] Haines
    What is it?
[02:22] Ashaf
    The killer wants to declare
    that they are a witch.
[02:25] Ashaf
    I bet all the answers are "witch."
[02:27] Haines
    What about this one?
[02:28] Haines
    "Four legs in the morning,
    two legs at noon, three legs at night."
[02:32] Guideau
    A witch.
[02:33] Ashaf
    A human, I believe.
[02:35] Haines
    Right. A human.
[02:37] Ashaf
    How strange. Was that one of the messages?
[02:40] Haines
    That's right. None of it
    means much of anything.
[02:43] Haines
    The killer's laughing at us.
[02:45] Haines
    We call it the "Witch's Pastime" case
    because it's all a game to them.
[02:56] Haines
    But that game has come back to bite them.
[02:58] Haines
    I realized that some of the riddles
    were quotes from a book.
[03:04] Haines
    And it seems this bookshop
    had ordered a copy of it.
[03:07] Haines
    Even the timing lines up.
[03:10] Ashaf
    I'm impressed you traced the quotations.
[03:12] Haines
    I just got lucky.
    I have the same book at home.
[03:19] Guideau
    Something stinks.
[03:24] Haines
    What do you think you're doing?!
[03:27] Guideau
    You guys go in.
[03:41] Haines
    Damn it!
[03:45] Ashaf
    The wound shows magical damage.
[03:47] Ashaf
    It seems natural to conclude
    that a witch inflicted it.
[03:51] Ashaf
    She must have gouged out his eyes
     because he saw something.
[03:54] Ashaf
    An attempt at irony, I assume.
[03:57] Ashaf
    If she intended to cover her trail this way,
[03:59] Ashaf
    why bother leaving quotations
    as messages in the first place?
[04:03] Haines
    I told you. It's just a game to her.
[04:07] Haines
    She probably just decided
    she might as well kill this guy, too.
[04:10] Ashaf
    We've lost our lead.
[04:13] Ashaf
    You look exhausted.
    Perhaps you could use some rest?
[04:17] Haines
    You shouldn't get too close to me.
[04:20] Ashaf
    Why not?
[04:21] Haines
    Because of precedent.
[04:24] Haines
    Nothing good happens to people I'm close to.
[04:30] Haines
    What is it?
[04:31] Detective
    Ms. Haines, we've found a new body here, too.
[04:35] Detective
    And a message.
[04:37] Haines
    What's it say?
[04:41] Loran
    I'm a disease.
[04:43] Loran
    Diseases propagate and spread.
[04:46] Loran
    This disease is called a curse.
    A witch's curse.
[04:53] Haines
    Considering I took you to the crime scene,
     you didn't manage to find out much.
[04:57] Ashaf
    Oh, well. Corpses aren't my specialty.
[05:01] Haines
    Well, I'm not expecting much, anyway.
[05:03] Haines
    See you.
[05:09] Guideau
    Ashaf.
[05:10] Ashaf
    Yes?
[05:12] Guideau
    Get ready. Something's here.
[05:14] Ashaf
    Really? You must be joking.
[05:17] Ashaf
    I left the coffin at the hotel.
[05:21] Ashaf
    Idiot! Don't just rush in blindly!
[05:37] Guideau
    She disappeared!
[05:39] Ashaf
    That she did. Quite literally like smoke.
[05:43] Ashaf
    So she's powerful and an escape artist, too?
[05:45] Ashaf
    I'd say we have our work cut out for us.
[05:48] Ashaf
    Still, why would the witch...
[05:50] Guideau
    She was tailing her.
[05:52] Ashaf
    What?
[05:53] Guideau
    Ever since we met up with that woman,
    I've felt someone watching us.
[05:57] Guideau
    Looks like I wasn't imagining it.
[05:59] Guideau
    Shit!
[06:06] Ashaf
    I'd like to ask you something.
[06:09] Haines
    What happened to you?
[06:11] Ashaf
    We had a little run-in with the witch.
[06:13] Haines
    And you lost her?
[06:14] Ashaf
    Yes, completely.
[06:16] Haines
    I see.
[06:17] Haines
    There goes what little hope I had for you.
[06:20] Haines
    You took quite a beating.
[06:22] Ashaf
    I've already performed healing.
[06:25] Ashaf
    More importantly,
    please answer my question.
[06:28] Ashaf
    How are you connected to the witch?
[06:31] Haines
    What?
[06:32] Ashaf
    It seems you were followed.
[06:35] Ashaf
    The witch must know what you look like,
[06:37] Ashaf
    so we can safely assume
    she tailed you, not us.
[06:42] Ashaf
    Why does the witch make a point
     of announcing what she is?
[06:45] Ashaf
    Presumably to mobilize the Paladins.
[06:48] Guideau
    Who likes fighting small fry?
[06:50] Ashaf
    But no matter how long she waits,
    only the police oppose her.
[06:53] Ashaf
    So to draw out the Paladins...
[06:57] Ashaf
    Guideau, what would you do?
[07:00] Guideau
    Kill all the small fry.
[07:02] Guideau
    Or...
[07:03] Guideau
    take out their boss.
[07:07] Ashaf
    The mayor's egotism caused this situation.
[07:10] Ashaf
    But only insiders know that.
[07:13] Ashaf
    Most would assume the police would be
    lost without you, their only real fighter.
[07:19] Ashaf
    And yet, despite all of that
    as well as shadowing you,
[07:22] Ashaf
    the witch waited until we split up,
    and then targeted us.
[07:26] Haines
    Why?
[07:28] Haines
    Why won't she go after me?!
[07:30] Haines
    Why follow me if she
    doesn't want to kill me?!
[07:33] Ashaf
    I don't know. That's why I asked.
[07:36] Haines
    Don't tell me...
[07:37] Haines
    Could it be...
[07:39] Guideau
    So you do know something. Cough it up!
[07:44] Haines
    This case, needless to say, had a beginning.
[07:50] (Flashback) Reuben
    I don't often see you this early, Kiera.
[07:52] (Flashback) Haines
    I always run late. If I don't go home early
[07:55] (Flashback) Haines
    and eat with the kids when I can,
    what kind of mother am I?
[08:00] (Flashback) Detective
    Ms. Haines!
[08:02] (Flashback) Haines
    What is it?
[08:04] (Flashback) Detective
    Your house just...
[08:09] (Flashback) Police Officer
    Ms. Haines, it's dangerous!
[08:11] (Flashback) Haines
    My children are in there!
[08:14] (Flashback) Haines
    Shulk! Loran!
[08:22] (Flashback) Reuben
    Were there any witnesses?
[08:23] (Flashback) Police Officer
    Local residents have given us information.
[08:26] (Flashback) Police Officer
    And we think the culprit left a
    message on a wall across the street.
[08:33] (Flashback) Reuben
    "I live on and on without change.
    I bear heir after heir without change."
[08:38] (Flashback) Police Officer
    What could it mean?
[08:41] (Flashback) Haines
    A witch.
[08:45] (Flashback) Reuben
    It's the time that was on the warning note.
[08:47] (Flashback) Haines
    Yeah.
[08:51] (Flashback) Haines
    Damn it! Not this purple smoke again!
[08:53] (Flashback) Detective
    We can't get a clear view!
[08:55] (Flashback) Haines
    Everyone, take shelter
    in the magical array!
[08:57] (Flashback) Haines
    What are you doing, Reuben?!
[08:59] (Flashback) Reuben
    I'll take her down.
[09:00] (Flashback) Haines
    Alone? That's crazy! She's a witch!
[09:02] (Flashback) Reuben
    Yes, I know. The witch who killed those kids!
[09:20] Haines
    I lost my sons and Reuben.
[09:24] Haines
    He was my magic teacher... and my boyfriend.
[09:31] Ashaf
    I suspect that warning was meant to...
[09:34] Haines
    What you told me clinches it.
[09:37] Haines
    It was to lure him out and murder him.
[09:40] Haines
    The witch is targeting people I care about.
[09:44] Haines
    You got too friendly with me.
[09:46] Ashaf
    So we gave her the wrong idea, huh?
[09:49] Ashaf
    But that clarifies things.
[09:51] Ashaf
    The witch must hold a grudge against you.
[09:53] Ashaf
    Any idea why?
[09:54] Haines
    Of course not.
[09:56] Haines
    But that's perfect.
[09:58] Haines
    If she's hung up on me,
    I may get a shot at revenge.
[10:03] Ashaf
    Revenge, huh?
[10:05] Ashaf
    I see. So that's why you went
    along with the mayor's lies.
[10:09] Haines
    Do you blame me?
[10:11] Haines
    I put my revenge ahead
    of the lives of citizens,
[10:15] Haines
    and keep racking up needless sacrifices.
[10:18] Haines
    I don't have the sense of duty
    and justice a detective should.
[10:22] Ashaf
    I won't fault you, but are you certain?
[10:26] Ashaf
    You look miserable.
[10:27] Haines
    Don't talk like you understand.
[10:30] Ashaf
    Even if you do get your revenge,
    who will celebrate it?
[10:33] Haines
    I know!
[10:35] Haines
    I know I'm not strong enough,
    and that no one wants revenge.
[10:39] Haines
    I don't need you to tell me that!
[10:41] Haines
    But I still can't do anything
    about this pain... this hatred.
[10:49] Guideau
    What the hell?
[10:50] Guideau
    You keep spouting crap that makes no sense.
[10:53] Guideau
    If you wanna get even, you do it.
[10:56] Guideau
    Who gives a shit who you do it for?
[10:59] Guideau
    You said it yourself.
[11:01] Guideau
    You'll kill her 'cause you hate her.
[11:02] Guideau
    You'll kill her 'cause you want relief.
[11:05] Guideau
    Revenge feels great.
[11:08] Haines
    Wh-What do you...
[11:10] Haines
    I'm not like you!
[11:11] Ashaf
    Why would you encourage her?
[11:13] Detective
    Ms. Haines!
[11:15] Detective
    The witch has sent a warning!
[11:16] Detective
    She's coming to the station in three days!
[11:19] Ashaf
    Goodness. She must want to
    kill someone there at any cost.
[11:23] Haines
    Can I trust you?
[11:25] Haines
    Can I really trust you to
    measure up to the witch?
[11:29] Guideau
    Damn right you can.
[11:32] Guideau
    I'll teach you...
[11:34] Guideau
    what makes revenge so sweet.
[11:44] Haines
    The witch's main spell is purple smoke.
     I don't know how it works.
[11:49] Haines
    She can crush most things with it,
     or send them flying.
[11:53] Haines
    It also acts as a smoke screen.
[11:55] Ashaf
    I suppose her vanishing spell
    is our biggest concern.
[12:00] Haines
    By the way, what did you do
    with those leather sacks I got you?
[12:04] Ashaf
    Oh, nothing much.
[12:07] Haines
    About Guideau... I know what she said,
[12:11] Haines
    but if we manage to beat this witch,
    will that cheer everyone up a little?
[12:16] Ashaf
    Yes, I'm sure it will.
[12:19] Guideau
    She's late.
[12:21] Guideau
    I've already digested everything I ate.
[12:23] Guideau
    Give us a time of day, too, asshole.
[12:26] Haines
    How are you feeling?
[12:27] Guideau
    Huh?!
[12:28] Haines
    What are you, some street thug?
[12:31] Haines
    Anyway, how on earth do
    you plan to fight the witch?
[12:35] Guideau
    Shut up and watch.
[12:37] Guideau
    Once I undo the curse on me,
    this witch will be a pushover.
[12:40] Haines
    Wait a minute!
[12:41] Haines
    Don't tell me you're counting on that?
[12:43] Haines
    You must know how to undo a witch's curse.
[12:46] Haines
    You either kiss your true love, or get the
    witch who cast the curse to undo it. That's it!
[12:51] Haines
    Can you prove this witch
    is the one who cursed you?
[12:54] Guideau
    'Course not.
[12:56] Ashaf
    Don't worry.
[12:58] Ashaf
    You see, there's actually one
    more way to undo the curse.
[13:03] Ashaf
    That's what we're gambling on.
[13:06] Ashaf
    If we face a witch and meet certain
    conditions, we'll see the return
[13:10] Ashaf
    of a monster even witches fear.
[13:14] Guideau
    She's here.
[13:19] Haines
    I see her.
[13:21] Haines
    Get ready!
[13:22] Ashaf
    Don't jump the gun, Guideau.
[13:24] Guideau
    Huh?
[13:32] Ashaf
    Good grief. Rampaging right out of the gate.
[13:37] Ashaf
    What's that sound?
[13:38] Haines
    Watch out! She's up to her old tricks!
[13:42] Guideau
    What just happened?!
[13:44] Ashaf
    Given how little we can see, we can't
    attack recklessly because we have allies.
[13:48] Ashaf
    But our opponent is free to cut loose.
[13:52] Ashaf
    Hardly an enviable position.
[14:07] Ashaf
    Are you all unharmed?
[14:09] Haines
    Yeah. I can manage as long as
    I focus solely on staying alive.
[14:15] Haines
    Guideau!
[14:17] Guideau
    That asshole!
[14:18] Haines
    Thank goodness. That means
    we kept our losses to a minimum.
[14:22] Guideau
    This sucks. Just let me kill her ass already!
[14:26] Ashaf
    What good will fighting do when
    our enemy has a way to escape?
[14:30] Ashaf
    We should corner her before we strike.
[14:32] Haines
    I've done everything you've said so far.
[14:35] Haines
    You'd better have a plan for what comes next.
[14:37] Ashaf
    Not a problem. I've already found her.
[14:41] Haines
    How on earth...
[14:43] Ashaf
    Have you noticed that
    there are more crows lately?
[14:48] Ashaf
    Those are my familiars.
[14:51] Ashaf
    And I can see everything they can.
[14:57] Ashaf
    So she can't escape us now,
    no matter where she goes.
[15:00] Ashaf
    Now, shall we go see a witch?
[15:31] Guideau
    Huh?!
[15:35] Ashaf
    Honestly. Must you charge
    in alone every single time?
[15:38] Guideau
    Ashaf, there were two of 'em.
[15:41] Guideau
    No, forget that. Damn it!
[15:45] Guideau
    These assholes aren't witches!
[15:48] Shulk
    Tch, another one. How'd they find us?
[15:52] Loran
    Dude, you survived?!
[15:54] Ashaf
    Yes. Did you think you'd killed me?
[15:57] Ashaf
    Well, of course you would,
    after a rampage like that.
[16:00] Ashaf
    Unfortunately for you,
    I have confidence in my wards.
[16:03] Shulk
    Damn. This guy's a mage.
[16:06] Loran
    Are you two alone?
[16:11] Haines
    What's going on here? It can't be...
[16:15] Haines
    You're alive, Shulk? Loran?
[16:20] Shulk
    Ah, crap.
[16:22] Loran
    You're the last person we wanted to find out.
[16:25] Ashaf
    You know them?
[16:27] Haines
    They're my sons.
    The ones I told you the witch killed.
[16:32] Haines
    But how?
[16:34] Haines
    What are you doing here?
[16:37] Haines
    Don't tell me...
[16:39] Haines
    There's no way!
[16:41] Haines
    Loran...
[16:41] Haines
    Shulk...
[16:43] Haines
    You were the witch?
[16:46] Haines
    No, that can't be.
[16:48] Haines
    I know you don't have that kind of power.
[16:51] Ashaf
    Look at what they're holding, Kiera.
[16:55] Ashaf
    There's the truth behind
    their witch-like power.
[16:59] Ashaf
    The two-volume grimoire, Sarnovasus.
[17:02] Haines
    A grimoire?
[17:04] Ashaf
    Grimoires provide power and
    perform spells for their wielders.
[17:08] Ashaf
    No magical aptitude is needed.
[17:10] Ashaf
    Just holding one grants power
    almost on par with a witch's.
[17:13] Ashaf
    They're a type of Forbidden Instrument,
    which are taboo tools of dark magic.
[17:17] Ashaf
    And either part of a two-volume grimoire
[17:21] Ashaf
    can summon its other half
    instantly across space.
[17:24] Ashaf
    But only up to a distance
    of roughly one kilometer.
[17:28] Ashaf
    So I was able to locate them
     in next to no time.
[17:31] Loran
    Who is this guy?
[17:32] Haines
    Where did you get something like that?
[17:36] Shulk
    What are you talking about?
    They were on your desk!
[17:38] Haines
    What?
[17:40] Loran
    You have no right to punish us!
[17:42] Loran
    It's your fault we ended up this way!
[17:45] Loran
    We don't kill because we like it!
[17:48] Loran
    These grimoires give us power,
    but we have to feed them lives!
[17:52] Shulk
    They'll eat us if we don't
    give them sacrifices!
[17:55] Shulk
    Touching the grimoires made us this way!
[17:57] Loran
    So we had to kill!
[17:59] Haines
    No...
[18:03] Guideau
    That's a good one.
[18:05] Guideau
    I've seen the bodies of a few people you killed,
[18:08] Guideau
    and I could tell you loved every moment.
[18:12] Haines
    You had to? You had no choice?
[18:16] Haines
    Then...
[18:18] Haines
    Then why did you kill Reuben?!
[18:21] Haines
    He loved you both, too!
[18:25] Loran
    That's enough.
[18:26] Loran
    We don't owe you all the answers.
[18:30] Loran
    And this is a fight to the death!
[18:36] Ashaf
    Unfortunately for you,
[18:37] Ashaf
    there are three reasons why
    you stand no chance against us.
[18:41] Shulk
    Huh?
[18:42] Ashaf
    First, you failed to pay
    your grimoires' price.
[18:47] Loran
    What are you talking about?!
[18:49] Loran
    I know we killed at least ten people today!
[18:52] Loran
    We made our sacrifices!
[18:53] Ashaf
    Oh, you mean these?
[18:59] Shulk
    What the hell is that?!
[19:01] Ashaf
    A mere dummy. A leather sack
    stuffed full of red liquid.
[19:05] Ashaf
    Well, they don't stand up
     to close inspection,
[19:08] Ashaf
    but your smoke made it awfully hard to see.
[19:11] Loran
    So what?!
[19:12] Loran
    With this power, we can kill all we need!
[19:16] Shulk
    I'll crush you!
[19:26] Ashaf
    Second, even without undoing the curse...
[19:32] Ashaf
    we're fairly strong.
[19:37] Ashaf
    Well, what do you know?
    We didn't need number three.
[19:40] Guideau
    You punks don't have what it takes
     to call yourselves witches.
[19:43] Guideau
    Assholes.
[19:48] Haines
    Why did you pretend to be witches?
[19:51] Loran
    So we wouldn't have to fight you.
[19:54] Loran
    You were too young to be our mother.
[19:59] Loran
    We could only see you as a woman.
[20:02] Loran
    We couldn't let anyone get near you, Kiera.
[20:06] Loran
    We love you!
[20:08] Loran
    You love us, too! Don't you, Kiera?!
[20:11] Guideau
    If you won't end this,
    get outta my way and I'll do it.
[20:15] Haines
    I'm fine.
[20:18] Haines
    I'll do it.
[20:19] Loran
    W-Wait!
[20:21] Loran
    Why?! You'd just abandon us?!
[20:23] Loran
    You said you loved us!
[20:26] Haines
    I did love you.
[20:28] Haines
    But you crossed a line.
[20:31] Haines
    Now I don't even pity you.
[20:37] (Flashback) Loran
    Why'd you adopt us?
[20:41] (Flashback) Haines
    Because I wanted you to know.
[20:43] (Flashback) Loran
    Know what?
[20:43] Shulk
    Know what?
[20:44] (Flashback) Haines
    What it is to love and be loved.
[20:47] (Flashback) Haines
    Ordinary things like that.
[20:53] Newscaster
    The Witch's Pastime case,
    which has long tormented Hayden,
[20:57] Newscaster
    was thought to be the work of a witch,
[20:59] Newscaster
    but we have just learned that
    two boys committed the killings.
[21:04] Guideau
    Damn it, Ashaf. You knew the
    witch was a fake, didn't you?
[21:08] Ashaf
    Well, you catch on quick when you know
     as many dark secrets as the Order does.
[21:13] Ashaf
    Nothing would have kept the
    Paladin Corps out of a real witch case.
[21:17] Guideau
    You'll pay once I'm done eating.
[21:19] Ashaf
    Now, now. Be reasonable.
[21:22] Haines
    Hey.
[21:23] Ashaf
    Kiera.
[21:26] Haines
    Thanks.
[21:27] Haines
    We really wouldn't have had
    a prayer without you two.
[21:30] Ashaf
    Just doing our job.
[21:32] Ashaf
    And we'll be taking the grimoires with us.
[21:35] Haines
    The grimoires...
[21:37] Haines
    I don't remember ever seeing them before.
[21:40] Ashaf
    Forbidden Instruments
    have wills of their own.
[21:42] Ashaf
    They find the right person at the right time.
[21:45] Haines
    You mean they got there on their own?
[21:47] Ashaf
    That may just be what happened.
[21:50] Haines
    They were never the best behaved of boys,
[21:53] Haines
    but they never would have turned out
    that way if not for those grimoires.
[21:59] Ashaf
    The deaths they would have
    suffered for failing to pay the price
[22:02] Ashaf
    would likely have been far more horrible.
[22:09] Haines
    I'll be going now.
[22:12] Ashaf
    Kiera.
[22:14] Ashaf
    Next time you run into trouble, drop us a line.
[22:21] Haines
    Sure.
[22:23] Haines
    I'll give you a call.
[22:25] Haines
    If a witch shows up, you can count on it.
[24:00] Ashaf
    Naturally, we retain a
    necromantic specialist.
SIGN    Beauty and Death
SIGN    Opening Act
[24:06] Ashaf
    Next time: "Beauty and Death: Opening Act."