Strip 980 -- First Seen: 2012-06-19
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The Transcript For This Page

Panel 1
Above shot. Emily, Katz, and Jeff are still hanging out in the shop, talking.
Emily: Has he been...'fixed?'
Katz: Sort of. There's a wrinkle in his AI program.
Panel 2
Close-up of Katz.
Katz: If I say the word, d-e-f-e-n-d, he'll go after whomever is threatening me.
Katz: I have a safety word, which means 'halt!' in Yiddish.
Panel 3
Emily still looks a bit nervous from a perspective slighty behind and below Jeff.
Emily: Seems like a good system
Katz (OP): Well, in general, yes. Funny story. Jeff and I were in a rough mining town, and a guy with a knife jumps out and demands my money.
Panel 4
Small silhouette of the three with lots of room for dialogue.
Katz: I tell Jeff 'd-e-f-e-n-d!' and he starts for the guy. Suddenly, the guy yells 'halt!' in Yiddish. Jeff stops and looks back and forth between us, trying to deal with the cognitive dissonance. He finally makes up his mind and starts after the robber again. The guy yells, 'Oy Vey!' and takes off like a rocket. I stop Jeff and we proceed on our way. So my system works pretty well, unless I'm attacked by another gonif who's also a Yiddish-speaking Jew, but what are the odds?