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Mystery Sign Theater 3000, Tuesday

Right. The pollen was gone, the kids were gone, and Bucky was out of whisky. Time to take some kind of step.

Or several steps, all the way to the theater.

NOW SHOWING
GRINDHOUSE DOUBLE FEATURE
Chase with Satan
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I Eat Your Plasma

Maybe not a step. Maybe a vague olive branch.

(You could take a guy out of the intelligence community, but you couldn't take the urge to send out coded messages out of the guy, apparently.)

The movie theater was open. Come get your grindhouse.

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Candy, snacks, and one vaguely uncertain looking man. Take your pick.

Well, James didn't know Jesse also had experience with the intelligence community, and wasn't that a big part of the problem, but-- even if she wasn't, this was a fine way for two socially awkward people to communicate.

Which is to say she showed up in front of the theater to dither, as she had for a day or two now. And-- just as she was about to talk herself out of this again, her eyes fell on the actual marquee.

"Oh."

It was not subtle, that marquee. The three ampersands were a flourish Ingrid had insisted on, but, yeah. The programming?

Might as well have spelled out J E S S E instead, saved some letters.

Inside, Bucky was listlessly poking at various Reese's products (why were there so goddamn many?) unaware that she was right there, outside the theater. Occasionally, his hand went up to his hair.

It was getting a little longer again. Messy.

He didn't have to wait long, either way. The door opened with a push, and Jesse-- well, okay, she maybe let it fall shut behind her audibly.

What do I even say?

Bucky didn't startle, but he was somehow overdeliberate about the way he turned to face the entrance. Overcompensating for how his senses had been trained on the door, because it might be her, any moment of the day.

And it was her.

She was there, and what was he supposed to say?

"Jesse."

What were they supposed to say?

"James," Jesse started, and-- "Whoa!"

A little cream-colored cat burst out of nowhere, shoving his way past her leg with one paw raised, and dashed straight past Bucky into the theatre.

"...Okay."

"... There's no cats allowed," Bucky said, out of some weird reflex, mostly confused. He looked back to where the cat had run off to. "Someone's gonna have to go look for that thing."

And it was probably him.

"There's not really any way out of the theater, is there?" Jesse pointed out. "It shouldn't be too hard to find a cat in there."

"Unless cats here know how to open an emergency exit."

You could never be sure, okay.

"Not any that I know of, except maybe the one who lives in the woods, but I think he's black," Jesse said absently, and then caught herself, and then sort of-- stopped.

She looked at him.

Bucky was still looking in the... general cat direction.

"They get anywhere and everywhere," he muttered, and carded his hand through his hair again.

(There was a little bit more beard on him than was usual these days, too. Nothing to read into.)

And if they were less-- strained, Jesse would've said something about it. Instead, she said, "Yeah," and crossed her arms. And sort of...

Awkwarded.

"So... 'Chase with Satan', huh? Not usually your style."

Well, now looking cat-wards was just convenient.

"No," Bucky agreed. A little more quietly. "But it is yours."

Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.

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A group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them tries to get even--with deadly results.

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Auditorium: NOW SHOWING: Chase with Satan / I Eat Your Plasma

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