"Point me at them.  You make it sound like there's a third party using them as the fall guys because he wants them out of the way."  Maybe I was just overthinking it, but I went on.  "So, on the one hand, we have some party that is trying to turn the Killjoys into a legit threat, and we have some other party that wants them destroyed?  Have I stumbled into the middle of a Dan Simmons' novel when I was hoping for something more like the writing of<em>Red Planet</em>?"  I stood there, not really having much in the way of the picture - I told myself it was because I was new and really not all aware of all the moving pieces that were this City as of yet, that I would learn in time, but there was a general nagging feeling that I would somehow be behind on the curve until it was literally too obvious for me to miss it.  Thank God Junior discovered the pack of beer.<br/><br/>"Well, I'm guessing it's not your beer.  And who the hell trashes an apartment to leave behind beer with a note?"