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Dale Cooper marche à la Barre, et il parle:

--Mademoiselle Barre, j'ai besoin de café...et une boite de 'glitter', s'il vous plaît.

Les articles apparaîssent, et Cooper est très heureux.

Cooper doesn't speak French.

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Cooper shakes. "What do you splice?"

"Telephone wire," he answers, "for the phone company."

"You know...I've always wondered how that works." Cheerfully. "Is it something you do for new residences?"

"New residence, old residence."

He nods towards the outside.

"I actually just got finished putting in the lines underneath the Hempstead Golf and Country club."

"What part of the country is that in?"

"Long Island," he answers, "New York," he finishes, because any Long Islander is well aware that they're really a different state than the rest of New York.

Yes. Yes of course.

"I've been to Manhattan," he says, thoughtfully. "Though not Long Island."

Cooper got arrested in New York.

For wandering into a protest.

It's a long story.

"I don't head into the City too much," he answers truthfully. He hasn't been to NYC for ages. Too much to be done elsewhere.

"It's an imposing kind of place." Cooper shakes his head. "Long Island -- it's more of a typical suburb?"

He nods.

"Pretty much nothing but. I'm down on the south shore of Nassau."

He points to the nice clothing he's wearing, somewhat dismissive.

"I'm acting manager for the week."

"Paperwork?" Cooper asks sympathetically.

"More like on call 24/7. My wife's about to beat me if I get out of bed one more time."

He shakes his head.

"When this place is a relief because the beeper won't go off?"

"It says something," Cooper agrees. "How much longer will you be the one on call?"

"Another week," he says morosely, "or that's what they said. Sometimes 'another week' can last for a month or so, depending on how they're playing with things. Fricking management."

Cooper shakes his head. "That's hard." And sips his coffee.

He shrugs.

"The overtime's not bad."

"There's a silver lining to everything, if you look hard enough," Cooper observes.

Yeah. He's one of those people.

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