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[Hank's looking a little more haggard than usual when he makes this post. He's tired and fucking wore out from a long stretch of just being perpetually pissed and sad. And goddammit, he wants his hope back, but it's been sliding.]

[He's still fuckin' trying, though.]

[He positions the phone so it's showing an old-timeyish looking Detective's office. We're talking he went for the Sam Spade aesthetic. He plants himself in a desk seat.]

So, I know I just fuckin' talked about getting a promotion. But I had some things go wrong with my last case. [Some big things. People kept going missing, for one.] Connor got assaulted by a decorated officer. And while he's getting what's due uh... I don't know. I figured it'd be better if I got him out of there while he was recovering emotionally. And this fuckin' job would require less walking.

[Those are his excuses? Real reason number one? Connor can't understand all those extra languages at the moment. Real reason number two? Being in the middle of the police station when his year runs up doesn't sound like the best plan. And for some people? Seems like it's not taking a year.]

[He sure as shit would like to stop losing fucking friends. Thanks.]

[Hank turns himself in his chair.] This is my new private detective's office. So now I get to take pictures for paranoid fuckin' people looking for reasons for divorce. I'm really goddamn excited about that. [He smears his hand down his face, then scratches his beard.]

But uh. It was time I said good-bye to the job. [He'd always said this was his last chance to be a cop, and here it is. But damn if the heaviness of that loss isn't weighing on him too.]

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A really dedicated cop will put the needs of people before the needs of politics.

I mean, she can't help what she is without being deprogrammed. [All clones are pretty much loyal to the Head by default.] But otherwise she's willing to give even problem ass people the benefit of the doubt. Being a dipshit doesn't make someone a criminal. She gets that.

You seem to have put a great deal of faith in this woman.

[He's not certain he'd do the same. Granted, he didn't have much faith in anyone. In Hank he had more than most, but he knew better than to trust the man fully.]

That is, of course, assuming she wasn't programmed to lull people like you into a false sense of security.

I think it's less absolute faith and more...

[He spreads his hands out.]

Fuck... Just the lesser of evils, I guess.

[He'd been happy to find a police department that hadn't been pointedly corrupt. But by the Head's control? It was corrupt by default.]