Goodman vs. Murdock

» Heisenberg’s bad break

  

fter evading the

Drug Enforcement
Administration for more than a
year, the mystery drug kingpin
known only as Heisenberg was
revealed to be Walter White, a
terminally-ill New Mexico high-
school chemistry teacher.

White was finally
apprehended during a massive
drug exchange with rival drug
lord Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. the
Kingpin, in Hell’s Kitchen, New
York.

Witnesses claim that
White and his accomplice,
Jesse Pinkman, were savagely
beaten by the vigilante known as
Daredevil.

White and Pinkman
were incarcerated at Ryker’s
Island. Local attorney Matthew
Murdock was to lead the
prosecution. White contacted
Saul Goodman, his New Mexico
lawyer, to defend Pinkman and
himself.

Within 24 hours of these
announcements, Goodman
arrived in New York on his
personal helicopter, and

: the prison became a media
: hotspot.

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: treated atrociously by the so-

: called justice system of New

: York,” said Goodman to Fox

: News reporters, “and I intend

: to see that their rights are

: respected from now on. Just

: because he lives a double life as
: an underground meth dealer

: does not justify vigilante actions :
: against Mr. White, or make :
: them at all constitutional.”

“My clients have been

When pressed for a

: statement, Murdock expressed

: his sympathies toward White: “I
: know what it’s like to be dealt a

: bad hand in life,” said Murdock,
: indicating his white cane. “And

: I can respect Mr. White for

: trying to make the best of a

: bad situation. But I can’t say I

: approve of his methods.”

Goodman then approached

: Murdock, with their exchange
: being captured by the Fox

: 5 news chopper. “Isn’t it

: convenient,” said Goodman,

: “that any time Daredevil beats:
: someone to a bloody pulp, youre :
: always there to prosecute the
: victim? What kind of rinky-dink :
: scam are you running over at

: Nelson and Murdock? Are you

  

: ambulance-chasers in cahoots
: with Daredevil?” :
“Honestly,” replied Murdock :
: with a wry grin, “I’ve never

seen him. But I can see, Mr.

: Goodman, that your no-account,

strip-mall legal practice has

: made a history out of defending
: convicted felons. You're a shark,
: and it will be my pleasure to

: take you apart in a court of law.”

“We'll see what the jury has

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: partner is gonna beg to work for
: me
to say,” said Goodman, storming :

: back to his helicopter. “Nobody’s
: going to convict a dying man

: who sells meth to pay for his

: kids’ college fund! We've got

: the greatest sob story in legal

: history! You'll see, Murdock.

: When I win this case, your

”

Unfortunately, the trial

: was cancelled, due to the

: mysterious deaths of White and
: Pinkman inside their cells at

: Ryker’s. When asked if Fisk was
: somehow involved, the warden
: declined to comment.

 

T-Day plus five

» One turkey’s nightmare

    
 

Chandler Walter

hid. It was cowardly and

wrong and shameful, but it
was all I could do. I hid behind
the chicken coop on the far
side of the farm. There is an old

myself inside, beneath the mud
and twigs, and waited.

For days the rumour had
been going around: the time of
reckoning was upon us. It was
an old story, something mothers
would tell their chicks to get
them into nest at night. No
one actually believed it would
happen.

It was too crazy to be true.
For just one day a year, the
humans slaughter and devour
our specific species? They
were carnivores, sure, but they
weren't monsters.

How naive we were. How

was staring us in the face.

day.
They came in trucks.
We were supposed to go
with them in the trucks.

No one understood what

: was happening. Maybe they

: were taking us to anew farm.
: Maybe they were setting us

: free, out in the wild. That was
: all until Pecky, a young jennie
: no older than eight months,

: was grabbed and tossed into

: the back of one of the trucks.

tractor wheel there, and I buried Everybody panicked.

It was anarchy. They

grabbed my friends, my family,
: everyone I had ever known.

They grabbed them by their

: necks, by their claws, whatever

: they could get their evil human
: hands on. There were just too

: many of them. My dear friend

: Gobbles got one right in the

: eye, but before she could do

: anything there were two more

: on her, pinning her down before
: throwing her into the trucks.

Our entire farm, wiped out.
I’m still here.
I was here when I smelled

: the wretched scent of dinner

trusting: so blind to the evil that ? Coming from the farmhouse, and

: I was here when they found me,

That changed on October u. lamenting that they’d missed

It was a cold, bright, autumn : ©M¢-

They’ve seen fit to leave

me here for another year, until
: [ll be “nice and big” for next
: Thanksgiving.

  

: But by that time we'll be ready.

: to revolt before Christmas,
: saving their own skins from the

: oven. I will spend the next year
: The pigs have begun preparation :

: are born or brought onto this
: farm the horrors that befall us

Image by Ed Appleby

: every October.
teaching all the new turkeys that :
: thanks then.

We'll see who will be giving