Soap Opera is the fourth chapter of the Black Lagoon spinoff series Dismemberment Galore! The Gore Gore Girl. It was originally released on December 19, 2019.
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| Title | Soap Opera |
| Release date | December 19, 2019 |
| Previous chp. | Stand by Me |
| Next chp. | A Quiet Place |
| Chapter number | 4 |
| Volume | 1 |
Plot
Calling Sawyer the Cleaner on the phone, a person tells her about a murder scene involving the poisoning of every person who died, telling her to hurry up and replace the corpses. Arriving at the house of the murder scene, Sawyer steps out of her van and dons her various personal protective equipment. Stepping inside with her broom, she sees the corpses and blood spatter and begins mopping up some of the blood when she becomes surprised to see a corpse behind her getting up. The long light-color-haired man wonders where he is at, cracking his neck and feeling hungry. Saying that his head hurts, he asks Sawyer what she is doing. She leaves to the adjacent room, and he wonders if she is resuming her cleaning. When Sawyer returns with her chainsaw, the man smiles nervously, remarking that seeing her gives him nostalgia.
Remembering that he saw a certain movie at a drive-in theater in high school, the man talks to himself about how Sawyer looks like his classmate Esther. He looks at her and she gives back an awkward frown, and he recalls how he finally gained the courage to ask out Esther, a goth girl who was hated by her classmates and wanted the man to watch a horror movie with her. Confessing that he did not like the sight of blood, he recalls pretending to not be scared of the movie. With Sawyer still standing and awkwardly listening, the man asks her if he was interrupting her cleaning, telling her that she can resume while he continues his story. Placing down her chainsaw and using her mop to clean the floor, Sawyer listens to him recall how Esther had braces and purple lipstick, saying that he finds the latter arousing. He then states that he told Esther that he wanted to kiss her, making Sawyer smile and blush as she cleans.
To his memory, Esther was surprised but nodded, and he kissed her as a big man on screen rampaged with a chainsaw. When the man states that he got an erection upon doing so, Sawyer is momentarily confused, and the man talks about how bad kids from their class saw him and Esther together, separating them both since Esther was actually a bully too, leaving him alone. Esther then laughed in his face, saying that her little game was to trick him into kissing her to toy with his emotions, making the man cry enough that his black makeup started to run. As Sawyer kneels down in front of him in sympathy, the man looks at her and asks if she is Esther, questioning how she can be alive. Upon asking, Sawyer's eyes widen in confusion, and the man scratches his head and angrily says that his situation was a setup wherein Esther's death was cleared but he managed to escape.
Screaming from pain, he then stops screaming upon feeling the side of his head, realizing the bullet that Jack shot at him got him in the head. Looking up in confusion, he asks Sawyer what is wrong, and she holds up her chainsaw above him and begins to cut him apart. Later, Sawyer's assistants arrive to the house and apologize for being late, but they are shocked upon entering, asking Sawyer what occurred given that they heard that the murder scene only involved a shooting.