video | a doomed date.

[magnitudes]

( Note: this is backdated a little to the very end of November, before all the December injury & death shenanigans start unfolding. )

( Gentle viewers;
The scene is a beautiful one. A table with a crisp white table cloth, the room candlelit. The restaurant they are situated in is beautiful decorated, tastefully suggesting traditional Mexican design while infusing it with the modern.

And then it becomes apparent that the gentle viewer is being drawn into a less-than-gentle discussion.

Sarissa is holding the device, it seems, so it has her and Boyle both in frame. )

Wow. Nah, okay mate, okay. Your problem is that you’re a bloody food snob, is what it is. No reasonable person is gonna thing that “authentic” ( one handed air-quotes ) cuisine is the only right way to have it.

( Charles, meanwhile, just looks purely offended at the mere mention of food snobbery. He’s just a guy trying hard to be a good date- he even wore a fancy suit and everything!- and instead has his taste brought into question. And on a public network too! )

It’s not snobbery to raise issue over a mac and cheese quesadilla! ( The most indignant of squeaking. ) There is no way that’s acceptable at any table, let alone at a restaurant of this caliber!

There is nothing wrong with a mac and cheese quesadilla! It’s fine! ( That came out less “cool and calm” and more like an indignant hiss. ) Going to a restaurant and ordering something you actually want to eat is the whole point!

( A waiter walks past and she smiles politely, Everything Here Is Fine Ha Ha Thanks, and then when he’s gone, she falls back into a scowl. )

There is literally no one that would agree with that, just ask- ( a vague wave towards the camera. ) - anyone and they’d--
( Boyle’s gaze is focused on something over Sarissa’s shoulder as he perks up like a meerkat. ) Nevermind, we gotta go.

( There's an intake of breath from Sarissa, and clearly she is about to point out how lame it is to change the subject, but instead her expression changes to one of surprise, and the device is shut off. )

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[coppelganger]

[ Sarah is recoiling IN HORROR, though whether that's because of the date or the mac and cheese quesadilla remains to be seen. ]

permavideo.

[magnitudes]

( The reply isn't immediate. When it does come, there are the lights of police cars in the background, and they're outside. There's a trail of blood down the side of her face, or possibly some kind of sauce. )

Don't worry, mate. It's all good, here.

[hardboyled]

My thoughts exactly.

[Charles has succeeded in not bleeding everywhere, but he does have sauce on his nice suit, his tie is loosened and his beautifully styled hair is all over the place.]

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[aloadeddie]

[ Yeah, there's definitely a food crime going on here. ]

Mac and cheese quesadilla is an abomination.

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[magnitudes]

You're an abomination!

( Nailed it.
She's outside, now, and wearing a police jacket, with an ice pack held to her jaw. ) Why is everyone so self-righteous about this?

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[hardboyled]

[Charles is looking a little more ruffled than earlier, but still keen to be grateful of this support.]

Thank you! It's questionable in any place of eating.

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[pop_of_color]

[All it is is a clip of Rosa going, "uhhhh" for maybe five seconds, before switching it off.]

[hardboyled]

[Have a ruffled looking Boyle.]

The correct response to a mac and cheese quesadilla!

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[littlemissfutility]

...I think mac and cheese in a quesadilla sounds pretty good.

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[magnitudes]

Thank you. Finally, someone who isn't a judgmental savage. Americans, honestly.

( But there's a vaguely conspiratorial quirk to her smile. It's okay, she's being obnoxious. )

[hardboyled]

Okay, but it's not. [Doing his very best to be polite here.]

[slightlyoffchilt]

Now talk about the pros and cons to veal.

[magnitudes]

Don't. Do not.

( FREDERICK BALTHAZAR AGAPIOS WILLIAM JÜRGEN TIMOTEO CHILTON )

[hardboyled]

There are cons to veal?

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[khajidont]

Okay, see, I'd probably try a mac and cheesadilla? But I don't think this place would serve mac and cheese in the first place, Sarissa.

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[magnitudes]

( When she replies, she's got the red and blue of nearby police cars lighting up her skin, and she is wiping something red off her skin - blood? Sauce? Who knows. Regardless, she's clearly more concerned by her friend's betrayal. )

Jaime, whose side are you even on?

[hardboyled]

[Boyle looks relieved but ruffled.]

It doesn't! It's the most egregious off menu request I've ever witnessed!

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[deadkord]

Oh my god, where did you find a place serving mac and cheese quesadillas?

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[hardboyled]

No where! No where is ever selling them because they're an atrocity!

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[magnitudes]

I was just going to ask!

( which she says in a pointed raised voice, possibly in Boyle's direction, before turning back to Ted. )

Didn't get to find out if they would.

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[9544]

What is happening right now?

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[magnitudes]

Something saucy.

( As in: Sarissa is leaning against a police car, and she's wiping sauce off her arm. Or she's being really blasé about blood, it's hard to tell.

Nah, it's gotta be sauce. )

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[hardboyled]

Jakey! Hey!

[A little after this video was posted, there's Charles outside looking ruffled but mostly unharmed, while standing by a cop car.]

I was on a date!

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[handycapable]

[ Ray squints -- a motion compromised only slightly by the eyepatch he's wearing, but it's still very clearly a squint -- as he watches this broadcast unfold, having almost no idea what to make of it. Just, #yikes? ]

Smile, you're on candid camera...? Or did y'all already know that?

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[hardboyled]

[It takes a while for a response, but by the time Boyle is next on video, his fancy suit is looking a little battered, his hair isn't slicked as well, and his tie is all squiffy. The police cars in the background help paint the scene, or at least show this might be more than a tumble in the bathroom.]

Yeeeeah, that was entirely Sarissa's fault. Pretty sure she wanted to prove how wrong she was.