Mr. Robot (TV Series)

eps2.1_k3rnel-pan1c.ksd (2016)

Ron Cephas Jones: Romero

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• Mobley : [looking at the neon sign of the Fun Society arcade]  What happened to the 'U' and the 'N'?

  Romero : Oh, that...?

  Romero : That's a story for another time.

• Romero : I'm too broke to be superstitious.

• Mobley : [It is Christmas time as Romero leads Mobley down the Coney Island boardwalk to the Fun Society Arcade]  Okay man, tell me again why are you bringing me to an arcade?

  Romero : That's what I keep trying to tell you. That's the problem with your generation too A.D.D to really take in the world. Now to really break it down I gotta take you back all the way to the 1920's. The Bedford's had a dwarf sanctuary here--they also had Lion Face man, Limbless Woman, shit like that--but the dwarves were the real money-makers. Suffice it to say, the Bedford's were a real hit; lines down the boardwalk weeks at a time. Then rumour has it, the husband wakes up one Christmas morning, grabs a large kitchen knife, stabs his little kids to death, kills his wife and then slits his own wrists. No motive was ever determined. Then in 1960, the place was bought up again by Mary Magnolise and turned it into a bowling gallery. She called it Games Games Games. Bit on the nose if you ask me, and repetitive but at least it had flare. She even installed a bar in the back so her and her friends could get drunk almost every night; and so she did almost every night. 'Till one time in '86, she got so liquored up she fell off the bar stool and landed on the pool cue she had in her hand; went right through her neck, clean, killed her instantly on the spot

  Mobley : Dude, why in the fuck are you telling me this for?

  Romero : [They enter the Fun Society Arcade and Romero goes behind the counter]  The place remained dormant until 2000, when Ned Bosham decided to buy up the place and turn it into an arcade. Now why anyone would want to start an arcade in 2000 beats the hell outta me, but Ned Bosham decided that's what he was going to do and that's what Ned Bosham did. About a year ago Ned's oldest son Harold wanted to sell the place, but Ned wasn't down with that. So Harold, being simple-minded and needing money for whatever simple-minded people need money for, decided dad had to go. So he stole his twin brother, Clyde's, double barrel shotgun and shot dad in the face. Now what Harold hadn't expected, seeing as how he had never fired a gun before, was the kickback. It kicked back so hard, that he tripped and fell out of his dad's 20 story window. By the time that he hit the ground, his head opened up like one of those Gallagher watermelons. Now all this commotion stirred awake his twin brother Clyde, who as he told it to me, was catching some Z's in his room while all this went down. By the time that he gathered all his bearings together, he was immediately arrested for the double murder of his father and twin brother, being that the weapon was in his name. This place made him crazy; believes it is the Nexus of all evil in the universe.

  Mobley : Yeah, no shit. You buy into any of this?

  Romero : Fuck no, man. I'm too broke to be superstitious. Whatever it is that makes people not want to be here is the only reason I'm here. The people down in County don't want to touch the paper work, the IRS don't want to foreclose, I'm syphoning electricity from the grid, as far as anyone's concerned this place don't exist. Now because it's you, Mobley, I'm giving it to you for half what the rate is.

  Mobley : I'm not here to rent from you Romero, I want you to work with us.

  Romero : Oh hell no man, I just got out, I ain't tryin' to go back no time soon.

  Mobley : Man, this is a chance to get back at the system that stole six years of your life. It's a game-changer.