Jake So what is it then?

Sven I can not tell you.

Happy Mark You aren’t James Bond, man, just tell us.

Tashi Please, with the telling.

Sven I always share these secrets with you and I always worry one day I will get in trouble.

Mark We don’t know anyone you work for, or against, or anything, and hell, man we’ve never shared your secrets.

Jake Besides I got you this gig, didn’t I? You owe me this one.

Happy Mark Wait, you got Sven his current job? How did that happen? No, wait, hold on. Lemme crack open another bottle.

Tashi Thanks, dearling.

Mark No worries, thanks for coming over you guys. I was getting bored.

Happy Sven Bored? You were watching movies and playing video games at the same time.

Happy Mark Ain’t technology grand? Still, bored.

Happy Jake Your boredom aside? Sven, what are you working on?

Mark No, I want to know how you got Sven a job in the first place.

Jake What do you mean?

Sven It was perfectly normal.

Jake Yeah. The designer I work for…

Tashi Designer? Don’t you work for a bottle wholesaler?

Jake Not anymore, no this is my new job.

Happy Mark How? How do you do that, man? Most people can’t get a job, singular, and you keep getting new ones!

Jake Clean living.

Happy Tashi Now that there is a lie.

Happy Jake All right, that is a lie. But I don’t know, guys, I just get new jobs sometimes.

Sven Sometimes?

Happy Jake All right! Often, but it just happens, it isn’t like I try to keep changing jobs. I get offers, calls, I know a lot of people. Sometimes I say yes.

Happy Mark You’re easier than a … than a … damn it! Than a…

Happy Tashi Than a two dollar whore in Canada?

Happy Mark Sure! Thanks, ‘Tashi.

Happy Tashi Of course.

Happy Jake Shut up, both of you. God, you should two date. Except for the whole thing.

Mark The “I’m gay and she’s a woman” thing?

Jake That’s the one!

Sven It is a stumbling block.

Tashi Tell me about it. Besides we would kill each other with a quickness.

Mark It’s true. Still, don’t think this will deter me from the track I’m on, Jake. Nope. How did this happen? The job thing, I mean.

Jake It just did. So I work for a designer now, and my boss has friends. They needed a guy who could build toys. So I called Sven.

Sven And I am grateful!

Mark Do your friends need…

Jake A guy who can watch 2001 and play the DS at the same time? I’ll keep an ear out.

Happy Mark I was going to say “a really good customer rep,” but that works better. Let me know.

Happy Jake You bet!

Tashi So Sven, you are building a toy. Why is this such a secret? We’ve seen toys you are to build before.

Sven This time, I mean normally I work for little companies and they have odd ideas and aren’t even in the country. It’s different.

Mark So this is big?

Jake It would have to be.

Mark Why?

Jake All I know is it’s for a cartoon.

Tashi A cartoon? Toys?

Sven Yes. Which is why I can’t tell you.

Mark You have to!

Sven I’m working for a new start-up production company. This is their lifeblood, this one cartoon.

Mark And they already want the toys to go live, but the cartoon hasn’t yet, has it?

Sven No.

Jake So you think, what, we’ll be so excited we’ll tell people and it’ll get back and you’ll lose your job?

Happy Sven Yes!

Tashi We wouldn’t. Truth’s.

Sven I can’t!

Mark You have to. Or we’ll use torture.

TO BE CONTINUED