In another session with the Doctor, The Patient talks about the best job he ever had.
It was with a traveling construction crew just before the Depression. He brags about smart he was,
how he led the men he worked with and how they listened and obeyed him. He asks The Doctor
if he had ever played Tic-Tac-Toe. The Doctor said he had as a child. The Patient smiles
and starts to tell how he and his co workers once "really" played Tic-Tac-Toe.

The Patient begins to reminisce how he and his crew were in a "nothing" town inside a "crummy" speakeasy run by a "nothing" couple. The men were very loud and drunk and enjoying their
last night in town. The Patient starts to play Tic-Tac-Toe on the bar and the bar owner
tells him to stop, and offers him a piece of paper. The drunken Patient becomes angry and takes out
his knife and begins to carve his game on the bar. The bar owner really gets upset now,
but The Patient threatens him with a knife and announces that his friends will play Tic-Tac-Toe.

The constrction crewThe Patient gets mad The Patient pulls a knife

The men destroy the bar with white paint playing Tic-Tac-Toe games on every inch of the
walls, floor and tables, as the bar owner and his wife watch helplessly. When they are finished
the other men go outside to continue their destruction leaving, The Patient and his friend Jimmy
alone with the couple. The Patient makes the bar owner lay on the floor behind his bar.
Then, The Patient and Jimmy play Tic-Tac-Toe on the woman, using her lipstick.

White Paint The Patient Darin, Munday and Bakalyan

The worried DoctorThe laughing Patient

"We Tic-Tac-Toed everything!" The Patient laughed to the stunned Doctor. In all those many
months The Doctor had been uneasy, he had been repelled but at this point he was
frightened. The really frightening thing was The Doctor was not sure
just WHAT he was frightened of.

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