Ed was a good guy, and they'd obviously been happy, and it was a dirty goddamn shame, him getting blown away that way.

It's a goddamn shame the way Chase treated her.

That's a goddamn shame.

I did, too, once- but that 'thopter caught a stroke of lightning, and fried every chip it had . . . a goddamn shame.

Al said, "It's a goddamn shame.

What a goddamn shame.

It's a goddamn shame.

It was such a goddamn shame that the right person just happened to be Cade again.