Silk Scream

This is Art.

You Art, it's Tee.

Oh hey man, how's it going?

You know can't complain.

Listen my boss asked me if I knew anybody with some

experience that could come help out in the shop today.

The silkscreen shop?

Yeah yeah yeah look man, this bitch Juliette

didn't come in today and we could really use a hand.

I know you're an artist and you got

a little bit of shop experience.

Cool I'm down.

We talking like right now?

No time like the present Bro Chacho.

Cool I'll be there in 30 brother, and hey thanks man.

Art dude, glad you could make it.

I'm gonna stomp the shit out of him.

Hey man.

Great to see you, it's been a minute. Cool shop.

Yeah, it's just a little crazy

around here in case you haven't noticed.

It's all good.

So what are you gonna have me doing?

Pulling shirts, catching shirts,

printing shirts, you know shirts.

I think I can handle that.

Well let me introduce you to everybody, come on.

This here is poncho, he is the best in the biz.

Hey Ponch, this is Art, he's going to be helping us today.

He's been screen printing for a while.

Nice to meet you.

You don't know.

Don't worry about him, he says that all the time.

This is Henly, he just started

but he's an aspiring printer.

How are you?

I'm good man.

I'd like to get your opinion on something.

What do you think?

That's really something.

Yeah I'm working on my own T-shirt line.

This is gonna change everything,

bears are really in right now.

Especially bears this big old dolphin dicks.

Keep up the good work.

I think you're really onto something there.

I know.

Alright this is Mark and Reggie, they own the shop.

Reggie's cool but Marks a little bit of tally whacker.

Got it.

Yo Mark, Reg this is the dude I was telling you about.

What's happening guys?

Thanks for letting me help out.

Well it's good to have you aboard Art.

So Tee tells me you're an artist and a photographer?

Yeah, that's right.

You look you'd be good at cleaning screens.

Why don't you have Tee here show you around,

we'll get the details later.

Shit's crazy right now, all of my major printers

came in at once and I'm literally about to choke somebody.

Oh I gotcha man, well look forward to...

Mark, what about today?

Lace I told you we can't do it today.

Juliette didn't show up.

Keep on of these on you,

it's a USB drive, also a laser pointer.

Y'all print these too?

No just a promo item, come on.

Let me give you the 10 cent tour man.

This is the press I always use.

Poncho is always on that one.

Back there we've got the darkroom and the washout area.

The shiters back in that corner,

and the dog's name is Silkie.

So what's the deal with all these people?

They all run local T-shirt companies?

Yeah they're all scrambling right now because this new

line of shirts called Elegant Decay just hit.

It's affecting everybody's business.

You won't believe how competitive these people are.

Yeah that guy's totally giving that lady the stink eye.

That's Hanes, he runs Crescent City Clothings.

He sells the most stuff in here and he's still worried

that everybody else is such a threat.

Funny thing is the lady he's stink balling now

really looks up to him.

The lady in the Below Sea Level shirt?

Yeah that's Lace.

And what's funnier than that is see her.

Melting Plot?

That's Bella, Lace's longtime rival.

Let's just say they've had a colorful past.

They used to mess around?

I could see that.

Wait till you see Bella's daughter Cammi,

she will get your dick pregnant dude.

Who's getting pregnant?

You are, if I've got anything do with it.

Hi I'm Heather.

Art.

This knucklehead's your friend?

Think you would have more sense than that.

Keep joking beautiful.

Heather's new here but she'll do fine

as long as she does what I say.

See what I have to deal with?

I'm just joking doll face.

She drives me insane dude.

Hi Polly, how's my little Olive Loaf?

Oh hey T, I hate it when you call me that.

Olive Loaf?

Polly's nice, dumb but nice.

I mean she's not cutthroat like

all these other cretins in here.

What's her company called?

All Dat Jazz, dumb.

All these people are exploiting our fine city with their

gaudy bullshit, one day there's gonna be a reckoning.

Put my fucking hands on him, I'm gonna hurt him.

What's his story?

Oh that's Tank he does all the Ninth Ward Soldier stuff.

Just stay on his good side, that's all I'm saying.

I had no idea this business was so ruthless.

Hey Marcus you think I got time to hang out

with these low rent ripoff artists?

Starting to draw flies here.

What we looking at today Sax?

Dead girl, she had this axe buried in her chest

and throat slit for good measure.

Who's the girl?

No idea, no ID.

She had money on her when we found her,

but no wallet and no identification.

How long she been laying down here like this?

I had to guess I'd say this happened

around three, maybe 4:00 a.m.

Whoever hit her with the axe is highly skilled,

did so from maybe 15 feet away.

She was a pretty girl.

Does look like the neck wound was tampered

with after the initial slice though.

No tracks so far that we found.

Somebody was real careful.

This is not a normal killing Sax.

Drive bys, gang retaliations, this is not that.

This, this was personal.

I just made more coffee.

You still drinking coffee?

I'm just getting my fix Heather, beats crack right?

Are you staring at my ass?

Jesus.

He gorgeous.

Thinking about asking Art out for

some beers later, you want to join?

You know welcome him to the family?

I don't know, text me later maybe I'll come meet you.

Sweet.

Tee are you seriously checking out my boobs?

Huh?

Are you fucking kidding me?

Hey Sean can I get a couple IPAs?

You're cool Tee, but I need to see his ID.

Juliette Shields, 26.

Originally from Lafayette, Louisiana.

She got picked up twice for shoplifting organic produce.

Sounds like a hardened criminal.

Right?

Current address?

Nope, just the one on file in Lafayette.

So unless she's commuting to the city

every morning we don't have an address.

That's a hell of a commute peddling

that cruiser she was riding last night.

Any prints on that axe handle?

Partials, either he tried to wipe it off

afterwards or he's got scarred hands.

Or he wore rubber gloves.

If he wore rubber gloves there wouldn't have been a print.

Disposables can leave an impression.

So we have no address, we have no name.

But we do have a place of employment.

This is my friend, is what we call a lead.

Well Polly as it is we stayed late to finish this order.

I mean I'd love to have all of them done for you but

it's been 12 hours today we're really exhausted.

You can pick him up tonight if you like Lace.

Mark and I were about to start closing up, but we'll be here

for a bit and we have some of your order right now.

Alright well I'll tell you what Polly just we'll stay

late for you, yeah come pick them up tonight absolutely.

Yeah anything for you.

Alrighty then, no problem bye.

Okay great, eight o'clock it is.

Thank you Lace, bye.

God these women are so pushy.

Do this, do that, I need them tonight, blah blah blah.

So fucking stupid.

I know man.

Lace really gets my fucking blood boiling