ON THE RECORD

1. 0:00Every population has an individual whose reputation simply precedes him.
2. 0:07Tonight we review the file, not because the verdict is in doubt,
3. 0:12but because, remarkably, he keeps requesting a second opinion.
4. 0:18He lines up the shot, takes the kill, and is dead himself within the second.
5. 0:25Not from the enemy, but from his own hand.
6. 0:29Arriving just late enough to matter, his own testimony entered into the record without complaint.
7. 0:37It was a headshot. Yes, my mistake.
8. 0:46This kill was made with a weapon he had never fired before.
9. 0:51And by his own admission, still does not understand.
10. 0:56Competence, it turns out, was never a requirement.
11. 1:03With a gun, he's never killed anyone with it.
12. 1:05Doesn't even know what it does.
13. 1:06I should have killed you.
14. 1:09I said you would be honest.
15. 1:10This exhibit covers an entire evening.
16. 1:14Not one incident, but several.
17. 1:18The same night, the same victim,
18. 1:21In the same explanation, every time, at some point,
19. 1:26accident stops being the operative word.
20. 1:30Shadow Knight killed me a few times tonight.
21. 1:37This report offers no explanation at all.
22. 1:41It simply reads,
23. 1:43Shadow Knight killed me somehow.
24. 1:47Somehow, in this case,
25. 1:49is doing an enormous amount of work.
26. 1:52Sheldon, I killed him somehow.
27. 1:56Jesus.
28. 1:58I could have sworn I killed him.
29. 2:00And then, for exactly one round,
30. 2:03the arrangement reverses.
31. 2:06Someone else's stray explosion finds him first.
32. 2:11For a moment, briefly,
33. 2:13justice resembles something like balance.
34. 2:17Oh, my lord!
35. 2:19I feel good about things to win.
36. 2:22Ah, sorry, shadow. I don't know how to...
37. 2:23This next piece of footage is lower quality than the rest,
38. 2:27recovered from an older recording.
39. 2:30It is also the most complete evidence on file.
40. 2:34Three teammates, one grenade launcher, 30 seconds,
41. 2:39and a confession live on the record.
42. 2:43Sorry, that was actually an accident.
43. 2:47Sorry. That was actually an accident.
44. 2:48After, I think he revived me.
45. 2:51And then he shot me right in the back.
46. 2:54I didn't revive you, I don't think.
47. 2:56Later that season, a betrayal occurs,
48. 2:59and the squad's first question is instinctive.
49. 3:03Is it Shadow Knight?
50. 3:05It is not.
51. 3:06It was someone else entirely.
52. 3:09Nobody apologizes for asking.
53. 3:11In this population, that is simply what a reputation is,
54. 3:15and somehow, they keep him anyway.
55. 3:18Oh, a guy's team is killing me.
56. 3:22Ah, thanks.
57. 3:23Is it Shadow Knight?
58. 3:24No, it's some other guy.
59. 3:26What if the sniper...
60. 3:28What a jerk.

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