Aidan 5- 1x01 The Rooftop
Another one down
This is the third time today I've seen my lifeless face.
My day started off normal.
I guess in theory, a cloned detective can get more done.
Heard you demolished the lower east side last night...
Playing knight in shining armor again.
You guys are just jealous.
You'll never be me.
Ouch!
Aidan!
He means you.
You mind telling me why there's a civil lawsuit on my desk this morning?
If you had seen the cigarette burns I saw...
Detective, you put her husband's head through six inches of concrete!
I'm sure the victim didn't mind.
She's the one who initiated the lawsuit!
They always protect those bastards.
Lieutenant, Detective Randal is ready for the Mayor's security briefing.
Even your damn surrogates know their place around here.
Maybe you should take some notes.
What are you doing here?
Covering for you.
Heard you had a late night.
Yeah...
Cigarette Man.
At it again, huh?
You know, that guy put her baby in the trash compactor
and was threatening to turn it on when I showed up.
After I...
After I talked him down...
I lifted that baby from the rotting garbage, and...
She couldn't breathe.
So, I cleared the sludge from her mouth...
and...
she started wailing.
It was the most beautiful sound I ever heard.
Detective Aidan's office, this is Detective Riley.
Thank you.
We'll be right there.
Illegal cloning leveled the playing field.
He was found on 18th street, not six blocks from here.
Which means there were twenty-seven possible security cameras covering the area.
Not forgetting possible alternate routes
he could have taken from the station when he left the precinct last night.
And last person to see him alive was Hicks in cyber division.
Who is still compiling the data files from the security cameras
to give us a better indication of who he may have met after he left last night
Getting cloned was part of the deal when I took this job.
I couldn't help but feel like I was losing a part of myself.
The Feds capped the number of clones allowed from a single source at five
and the only approved patent...
is owned and operated by Infinity Corporation.
Infinity's public face is that of a flawless track record.
But you'll never hear them mention that during the injection protocol,
my 3rd clone suffered a massive brain aneurysm...
and died instantly.
I've often wondered what went through his mind
in that single moment of consciousness.
It's not like we were best friends...
but... I feel like I should feel something.
At least something more than what I feel now.
How does it make you feel?
Alone.
Like no one is watching my back.
Well, I guess that's the difference between us...
I don't feel anything at all.
That's the fourth time I've seen my lifeless body today.
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