- Big crowd, big cameras blasting his face everywhere... and the big man himself doing the big speech.
- Welcome to dear ol' padre's coronation. They're making him Mr. Fancy Pants of the Syndicate!... It's an official title.
- Look at him... revelling [sic] in the thing he does better than anybody else: Winning.
- Growing up, when he was around...
- ...It was better when he wasn't around. Pops of the year he ain't...
- But the dudes in the Syndicate believe in him, and I think he's trying. I can see it.
- So why can't Che?
- Duardo: "People of the Outlands, tonight... your voices were finally heard! You voted for change. You voted for... Duardo Silva!"
- Duardo: "And change... is what I pledge to you. No longer will there be an [sic] criminally incompetant [sic] council of fools coordinating the Syndicate."
- Duardo: "No. There will be one man - one vision - leading all of us to a safe and prosperous future."
- Duardo: "But, my friends, we cannot get there alone. We need heroes - a new arm of the Syndicate, helping to douse the fires gnashing at our doors."
- Alright Papi!
- Duardo: "And who greater... than the Frontier Corps!"
- Duardo: "Their noble work has seen great social and medical support across the Outlands... but for too long these TRUE legends have been underfunded, unable to reach their full potential."
- Duardo: "Today, that changes! As my first act as the One Voice of the Syndicate, I reveal to you--"
- Duardo: "The fully funded, rebranded SYNDICATE CORPS!" With their help, there is nowhere the Syndicate cannot reach!"
- ...Que?
- The SYNDICATE Corps?! ...You're not gonna put them in green, are you? That's sorta my thing.
- ...Also, YOU DID WHAT?!
- Oh no! He's exiting stage left - or is it my left, but stage right? I always get them wrong - I need to talk to him, NOW.
- "Slow down, papi--"
- Duardo: "'Slow down'? My boy, I didn't know you knew the phrase."
- "You said you were helping the Frontier Corps, not... not doing some hotdog takeover! ...Hostile takeover!"
- "You can't control everything!"
- Duardo: "'Help', 'control' - these concepts are brothers, Octavio."
- Duardo: "How can we help the people we love without controlling what may harm them?"
- "You've... you've given the Corps weird new logos and helmets! They look like an army! That isn't right."
- Duardo: "You've proven yourself to me, so I will not coddle you."
- Duardo: "There are those who will see what I've done to the Frontier Corps as a perversion of their mission..."
- Duardo: "But the Outlands are a complicated place, so we must make complicated choices."
- "Complicated, but fair, right Pops? You'll have the Corps do good stuff, right--"
- Duardo: "You think I'll lead them? Oh no, Octavio, I'm far too busy - their new President will be an old friend. You remember--"
- Duardo: "Cherisse Che."
- "No, okay, big no-- You can't-- Che's mom is-- she's, she's... that chica's not cool!"
- Oh, Che's gonna kill me...!
- "..."
- "...Did you play me, pops?"
- Duardo: "I would never 'play' you. We worked together for this future. Silvas, familia, forever."
- "...And are you? Are you a Silva?"
- "Am I?!"
- Duardo: "Octavio--"
- "Che and me, we found what you stole from Olympus. Not some... some nuclear codes, not some brain-controlling serum, just a death certificate."
- "Yours. Or Duardo Silva's, whoever he is. 'Cause Duardo's as dead as the Frontier Corps, and you're not."
- "So who are you, 'dad'?"
- "And don't you dare hide from the truth, not even I could outrun the--"
- Duardo: "Hah!"
- Duardo: "Torres Silva is the name I was born with. I always knew you were smart enough to discover the truth."
- Duardo: "When your father died, I took his name and identity, because I loved him..."
- "..."
- Duardo: "Oh, my apologies-- you thought I'd string you along with mystery and intrigue? I told you, Octavio-- you've proven yourself. From me, you get only the truth."
- "...my dad's dead...?"
- Duardo: "...Yes. Even with the full might of Silva Pharmaceuticals behind me, I could not..."
- Duardo: "I could not save him."
- "...Who are you?"
- Duardo: "Oh, you haven't worked it out? You could say I look quite good... for a man approaching his 100th birthday."
- Duardo: "Here, help an old man with his cane. I think you'll find I have a better place for storing my stims than you..."
- Duardo: "Aaaah... much better. It's not quite the same concoction you use in your games, though I assure you it puts a spring in my step."
- Duardo: "Who am I, my boy? You can call me..."
- Duardo: "Abuelo."
- "..."
- Duardo: "Don't fret, Octavio. There is so much we're going to accomplish together... all in your father's name."
- Duardo: "With you by my side, the Outlands will never be the same."
- Duardo: "To familia."
- "...familia..."
- ...
- Losing the Outlands to Duardo... losing the Frontier Corps to Mother... and losing Silva...
- Some days just get worse and worse, and not even DOC has the cure.
- Sure not gonna find it in a cell block beneath Olympus, making a deal with the Devil... but it's the best I got.
- "HAH!"
- "I KNEW when it all went to hell, Little Miss Savior would come lookin' for me!"
- "So. What are we donna do about savin' the Outlands, eh?"
- "...You 'n' me, Margaret?"
- "We're gonna burn it down."
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