B2S17C25 (Dialogue)

* Claudia: Bernard?! YOU killed all those people?! What's your problem?!
* Bernard: Yes, I did…I thought I’d make everyone SMILE the same way I do!
* Claudia: What do you-
* *Bernard turns around and reveals his clown makeup to the team*
* Bernard: Voila!
* Claudia: You’re…you’re crazy!
* Bernard: Shhhhh…quiet! Quiet quiet QUIET!
* Bernard: Do you know why I wanted to become a judge, Claudia?
* Bernard: I wanted to punish people who hurt others! That’s fair, isn’t it?
* Bernard: Funny how you grew to trust me so much even though your team’s had such little interactions with me…
* Claudia: You sentence killers! Why burn down prisons? And what’s with the balloons that resemble the colors of the rainbow?!
* Bernard: Ah, yes…I’ve been doing that for so long…so long indeed…
* Bernard: So much fire to spread…such little time…
* Bernard: My favorite place in the whole world…is the carnival!
* Bernard: That’s where you found my three latest victims! He he he!
* Bernard: I loved the clowns…One came over to my house every year for my birthday…
* Bernard: One day though, while my daddy was away, I was looking for my birthday presents…
* Bernard: I thought they would be in the basement, so I went down the wooden steps…heard every creek…they became louder and louder as I approached the basement…
* Bernard: There was my father…as I always knew him…
* Bernard: *begins to cry* Do you want to know what he did to me?! My birthday presents every year were a little surprise from daddy! Every single day he gave me something new!
* Bernard: I was expelled from seven schools for my so-called “innipropriate” talk…
* Bernard: One day, mommy found out everything…she was so smart…so brave…so wise…
* Bernard: And daddy slit her throat…I just stood there and watched…
* Bernard: He screamed along with her…and I did too! We were all screaming as one big HAPPY family!
* Bernard: Daddy would always dress up as a clown before giving me a special surprise…
* Bernard: I hated him, but I miss him so very much…
* Bernard: One day, little old me had enough…I saw daddy…dressed up as a clown…he gave them all nicknames…how fun…
* Bernard: He did the usual thing he always did…there were some things that he never explained to me…
* Bernard: I saw the lighter he used to smoke while having his fun…I grabbed it while he was getting the wine…
* Bernard: I stuffed it in my pocket…and never let it go!
* Claudia: You mean the lighter on your desk?
* Bernard: Bingo! He looked at me, *Bernard puts his hand on Claudia’s cheek and lightly strokes his fingers across it* lightly stroked his fingers across my face…
* Bernard: He told me that I’m a daddy’s boy…that mommy was a whore and he did what he had to as I saw the pool of blood that surrounded her body…
* Bernard: I ran as fast as I could…we were playing tag…
* Bernard: I grabbed the gun on his table…he was a hunter, but not the kind I knew!
* Bernard: I shot him in the chest as he fell back down the basement stairs! Hah!
* Bernard: I ran…as far away as I could…into a cute little orphanage…
* Bernard: They took me in, but separated me from the other children because of the way I talked…oh the fun they had while I just watched.
* Bernard: The orphanage people were as mean to me as daddy was! After years of not being shown to anyone, I managed to escape.
* Bernard: This time, I got my full revenge! I used daddy’s lighter and burned it to the ground! It all fell to pieces while I stood there and laughed. I screamed along with them…I felt the excitement…the adrenaline that they did!
* Bernard: I saw a teenage girl lying dead after the burning stopped…I found a sparkly purple lipstick in her pocket…
* Bernard: Nobody ever caught me!
* Bernard: I saw the look on all the kids’ bodies when they were good and dead…I freed them from their eternal slavery!
* Bernard: I continued burning and burning orphanages for years to come…taking any piece of makeup I could find as a souvenir…one day, I found a jester hat in the ruins…apparently a clown visited there to celebrate a birthday…
* Bernard: I was sixteen when I found that hat! This is when it all clicked together for me…
* Bernard: I returned to daddy’s house and found mommy’s skeleton in the same place I had left it…
* Bernard: But daddy was nowhere to be found!
* Bernard: I did my research and realized he was in prison fighting against the death penalty…
* Bernard: I then realized I wanted to become a judge…outlaw the death penalty…I wanted to save my daddy for MY wrath! Not the system’s!
* Bernard: I realized how many yucky people there were in the world in prisons…so I begun burning them down! Leaving rainbow souvenirs everywhere!
* Bernard: I opened every door in the basement and found hundreds of dismembered body parts…all looked like they were twelve…the age I was when I last saw my daddy!
* Bernard: I enrolled myself in law school after forging several documents and learned about the impact I had on everyone…some were calling those kids lucky…others mourned their losses like the morons they were…
* Bernard: After I was done, I BURNED that place to the ground! Burn burn burn burn BURNED it!
* Bernard: They were lucky, the lot of them…
* Bernard: Everyone thought that these burnings were multiple different people…several of them were taken into prison…I judged them myself…
* Bernard: I became incredibly popular after outlawing the death penalty…my father would finally feel my wrath!
* Bernard: But after the cops found all the body parts and estimated that daddy had done this to about 200 other boys, he kept getting transferred and transferred around…
* Bernard: I put in the order to keep him in one place, but so far…NOTHING! Zip. Zero. Zilch. Zada!
* Claudia: But what’s so special about this prison?!
* Bernard: I knew it was where several of the evil, mean, unjust killers I’ve sentenced over the years have gone…it was so damn satisfying to burn it to the ground…people screaming as their lives fly away…the last thing they see…being me, dressed up as a clown…smiling…
* Bernard: I tought myself how to build explosives too…I had a great mentor...
* Claudia: Lexi was right! You two DID know each other!
* Bernard: Yes…we did…
* Bernard: Now fly like the wind…you won’t see me again, EVER!
* *Bernard places a smoke bomb on the ground and fades away. We hear his crackling and Claudia shoots, but hits only smoke: Bernard is gone. Claudia hears coughing in the background and aims her gun.*
* Shelley: Claudia Mcgrath! How DARE you aim a gun at me! You’re so reckless!
* Shelley: That’s it! I’ve had it with you and your team! Claudia, give me your gun and your badge, NOW!
* *Shelley grabs onto her chest and she screams before her veins become visible and she collapses. Fujioka appears behind her and slices off her head with a machete. Her head goes flying off.*
* Fujioka: I think I’ve done both of us a favor!
* Claudia: I can’t say I’m not happy…
* Claudia: Wait, what am I doing?!
* Claudia: Fujioka Chino, put your hands up! We’ve caught you red-handed for the murder of Shelley Rowland!
* Fujioka: Aw, how very cute…is your literal clown of a judge going to sentence me? If I heard your conversation correctly, he’s on the run!
* Claudia: …
* Claudia: Damnit!
* *Fujioka walks away. Lexi is watching the security cameras which recorded the entire thing. She writes about Bernard having a rare brain condition where a traumatic event prevents one’s brain from growing older like the rest of the body. Lexi wrote that Bernard learned over time how to act mature around others but his still functions like that of a four year old’s.*