Strip 245 -- First Seen: 2009-08-21
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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Re-establishing the scene: the brothers, the girls, Tobi, looking towards Commander Drenkowski, who is standing in front and to one side of the holographic monitor. On the monitor we see a photograph of crowded Martian city street. (With their backs to us, we see from left to right: Tobi, Mac, Ernie, Bert and Nisa.)

Drenkowski: After he was kicked out of the military, Johnson's exact whereabouts for the next few years is unclear.

Panel 2
Closer-in on the monitor. Drenk is barely in the frame, we now see the city street scene more clearly. There's a circle around one young man, who happens to be Johnson, who is looking furtively over his shoulder.

Drenkowski: Six years later, he turned up on Mars.

Drenkowski (2): He was involved in petty crime and other anti-social activities.

Panel 3
Medium close-up on Drenkowski, glancing rightward towards the monitor as he addresses the people assembled before him.
Drenkowski: At some point he was given the nickname, 'Pete the Pick.'
Drenkowski: I guess we now know why.

Panel 4
Drenkowski standing next to the monitor. On the monitor we now see a different street scene, in an Earth city. It can look like New York. Again, Johnson is in the picture, identified with a circle drawn around him. He looks a bit older now.

Drenkowski: He showed up on Earth again a few years later.

Drenkowski: There were allegations he was doing 'wet work' for corporate and government clients. Nothing ever proven, though.

Panel 5
Bert, Ernie, Mac and Tobi

Ernie: You'd think more would be known about this guy.

Ernie: He must have stepped on a lot of toes.

Tobi: True enough ...

Panel 6
Medium shot of Tobi

Tobi: But a really good hitman doesn't leave any clues.

Tobi (2): However, there is one informal reward offer for Johnson ...

Panel 7
Looking over Tobi's shoulder towards Nisa, Bert, Ernie, and Mac. The brothers look intrigued.

Tobi: The Martian Pashtun enclave of Nya Darra Adam Khel has offered a reward of five thousand grams of gold for Johnson, dead or alive.