Count Rugen Explains New Machine Goes to 51

Rugen says he also forces prisoners to listen to songs in D Minor, which he called the saddest key

FLORIN CITY — A new promotional clip from the upcoming documentary “This is the Pit of Despair” showed notorious interrogator Count Rugen explaining some of his torture equipment to director Martin “Marty” Di Bergi.

“Look, the machine, the numbers go up to fifty-one,” said Rugen, pointing to the digits scrawled on the gold-plated scale next to the device. “It’s one more painful, isn’t it? It’s not fifty. You see, most torturers, they’ll be running the machine at fifty. You’ve used all of your suction cups; you’re at maximum water flow, your subject has experienced true love, meaning no man in a century will suffer as greatly as they will. Where can you go from there? Where? Nowhere. Exactly. What I do is, if Prince Humperdink storms in and demands that I push it even further, you know what I do? I put it up to fifty-one. One more painful.”

Rugen expressed confusion after Di Bergi asked why he didn’t simply increase the amount of pain that fifty represented.