Transcript For Strip 618

Panel 1
Medium shot of a wizened old Beltape, Adam Friedman, perched on one of those round-stone 'chairs' popular among his kind. He's wearing a sort of robe and surrounded by arcane-symbolic decorations. And smoking something in a pipe.
Friedman: T'is business you haf brought to me, it is a very serious t'ing.
Friedman: Who do you accuse, hey? What is your efidence?

Panel 2
Reverse view to show Murphy, Nigel, Buford and Nicole, perched on their own stones. Nigel is handing forth another sample vial.
Nigel: I can't really accuse anyone at t'is point, Oday Friedman.
Nigel: As for efidence, we haf a sample taken from my sister's body containing t'e instrument of her murder.

Panel 3
Friedman is holding the vial and examining it closely.
Nigel (OP): T'e vial contains blood-nanites which are encoded to scrape plaque from a person's arteries and ...
Friedman: … and use t'em to block a major artery. Yes, I haf heard of such t'ings.

Panel 4
Medium 2-shot of Buford and Nicole.
Nicole (sotto voce): Has he heard of chairs? This stone is a pain in the vag ...
Buford: SHHH!!

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