History Recap / KolchakTheNightStalkerE12MrRing

* DownerEnding: R.I.N.G. is shot dead by the soldiers after the general in charge of his capture decided to send armed soldiers to escort him and Leslie Dwyer out of the building while he was surrendering himself peacefully, resulting in him lashing out. Kolchak is drugged so that his memories of the whole experience will be erased, and he desperately records his account of the events, though he bitterly notes that he probably won’t hear them anyway. Dwyer is carted off to an unknown place by the soldiers, and Kolchak cynically notes that the government will build more R.I.N.G.s, but without Dwyer’s help, something which will inevitably go wrong.

-> ''"I don't know when exactly I was in this office last. In some ways it seems like I never left. But, no, that's not right. For at least a few days I was away, far away, in the hands of men with no faces and no names. They broke me down, broke my story down, telling me how it hadn't happened the way I claimed. At least that’s what I think they did between injections. Memories fade fast enough without chemical help. But if I don't tell this story now, I don’t think I ever will. Now... what was that date?"''

* AIIsACrapshoot: Downplayed. R.I.N.G. is violent, but he’s only trying to survive and usually only uses lethal force on those he perceives as threats.

-> ''"I don’t even know where they took me now. At least I can’t be sure. Maybe it was Terrell Institute but it could just have well been the Black Hills of South Dakota for all I know. Was there a drug? Pentathol? Pascalamine? I can’t be sure of that either but there must have been something. I can’t even be sure the events ever happened the way I told them. Perhaps when I’m completely back in this world, I’ll turn on this tape and not believe any of it myself but I doubt it. [[TheEndOrIsIt Because I believe that somewhere, some place, They or someone else will put some other R.I.N.G together without the help of Leslie Dwyer and who will program him then?]]"''

* AIIsACrapshoot: Downplayed. Mr. R.I.N.G. is violent, but he’s only trying to survive and usually only uses lethal force on those he perceives as threats.
* AntiVillain: Mr. R.I.N.G., who is essentially a frightened child desperately trying to survive and find his mother.
* DownerEnding: Mr. R.I.N.G. is shot dead by the soldiers after the general in charge of his capture decided to send armed soldiers to escort him and Leslie Dwyer out of the building while he was surrendering himself peacefully, resulting in him lashing out. Kolchak is drugged so that his memories of the whole experience will be erased, and he desperately records his account of the events, though he bitterly notes that he probably won’t hear them anyway. Dwyer is carted off to an unknown place by the soldiers, and Kolchak cynically notes that the government will build more R.I.N.G.s, but without Dwyer’s help, something which will inevitably go wrong.
* MuggedForDisguise: Mr. R.I.N.G. murders a mailman to take his clothes.

* DownerEnding: Mr. R.I.N.G. is shot dead by the soldiers after the general in charge of his capture decided to send armed soldiers to escort him and Leslie Dwyer out of the building while he was surrendering himself peacefully, resulting in him lashing out. Kolchak is drugged so that his memories of the whole experience will be erased, and he desperately records his account of the events, though he bitterly notes that he probably won’t hear them anyway. Dwyer is carted off to an unknown place by the soldiers, and Kolchak cynically notes that the government will build more R.I.N.G.s, but without Dwyer’s help, something which will inevitably go wrong.

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