Dawn Dunlap - Forbidden World

So fair is fair. Get naked.

Around here?

That's one thing I like about my job. I'm always the new face.

Oh, Mike.

And there are some things I don't like about my job.

Like what?

Well, like this, for example.

Sam and I ran across a caravan of nomadic Dindars.

You know, titans.

Anyway, it all started when Sam and I...

rather tactlessly accused a Dindar commando...

of being a...

a maggoty, fat-ass,

grease-licking...

dung-bunny.

Tracy, it's as if they're not listening to Cal.

He's telling them the thing's intelligent,

and they go right on insisting the only way to deal with it is to blow it up or something.

What else can I do?

I think we should try to communicate with it.

I know it's far-fetched, but it might work.

And we don't have that many options.

Come on, that's crazy, Barbara.

Listen, the point is, if we go on ********* it, it's going to go on attacking us.

It's called cognitive retribution.

And the only way to stop it is to break the cycle.

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