#Michael ships himself with David more than anyone else ever could | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

scarpool-gmk · 3 years

Text

Title: Godly Marine: Killed Author: Scarpool Fandom(s): NCIS, Percy Jackson & the Olympians Pairing(s): Gen Rating: PG/K+ Summary: Chapter 7 (9/13) — Staff Sergeant Michael Kahale, Marine Corps Mechanic and Son of Athena, was murdered. Annabeth Chase is determined to find out who did it and why. She, along with Percy Jackson, Grover Underwood, and Clarisse La Rue, infiltrate NCIS where they team up with NCIS Agents Leroy Gibbs, Anthony DiNozzo, Timothy McGee, and Ziva David. Complete Genre: Fanfiction, Mystery, Drama, Humour, General, Action Warnings: N/A

Gibbs's command to 'bring them all' was still ringing in Tony's head as he finished dropping off the Kahale kids in the conference room. Their father was waiting for questioning.

The elevator dinged, signaling Ziva's and Gibbs's arrival. They lead Patricia Kahale in, Ziva taking point and escorting her to interrogation.

Tony walked next to Gibbs to report. "One in interrogation, the rest in the conference room."

Gibbs nodded and glanced around the bullpen. "Where are they?"

The long Island Agents. "Uh, don't know, Boss. They weren't here when we came back."

Gibbs lifted an eyebrow but stayed silent.

"So, how do you want to do this, Boss?"

"Let's start with the father."

Tony snatched the case file as they passed his desk. Then, not because he had an urge to share his current opinion, Tony said, "And the evil step-mother?"

"Let her stew."

"Right, Boss. How about the kids?"

"Have McGee bring them down. He's in charge of any incoming calls."

"Right." Tony started for the center stairs.

"Hey!" Gibbs called out. "You're with me. Write to him or something."

Tony frowned as he followed Gibbs. Although interrogation was way more fun than dealing with McProbie and the kids, Tony was uncomfortable that Gibbs wanted him to send a postcard through the building.

"Write to him?"

"Through your phone," Gibbs said.

"Oh! Er, you mean send a text."

Gibbs stopped in his tracks. Tony cringed. "I'm writing to him, Boss."

Gibbs continued on, leading them to the interrogation wing and pushed open a door even though he was never told in which room the man was being held in. Tony shuddered. The Gind. What power it beholds.

"Hey, what's going on?" Johnathan Kahale questioned as they entered. "You said this was about my son? What's going on with the investigation?"

"Mr. Kahale," Tony said, "This is Special Agent Gibbs."

"Hi," Kahale said and, after a brief hesitation, held his hand out. Gibbs shook in greeting.

"So, you are also on Michael's case? I had only met two other agents before being picked up by Agent David and Agent DiNozzo here. I didn't realize how big your teams are."

"Yeah," Gibbs chuckled, "I'm getting that a lot recently."

"Oh," Kahale said, unsurely. Tony understood. He would have said the same thing to that.

"So, how long is this going to take? With the kids here, I should really speak to my wife."

"Your wife is also here, Mr. Kahale," Tony said.

"Really? Can I please see her?"

"No," Gibbs said.

"What? Why not?"

"You are both suspects," Gibbs said.

"Excuse me?! I don't know how you came to that conclusion, Agent Gibbs, but I assure you that neither of us had anything to do with my son's death."

"Then I'm sure you can account for your whereabouts during that time," Tony said.

"I was home."

"Asleep?" Gibbs asked.

"Yes."

"Your wife?"

"Right beside me."

"Did you know about Michael's presence in the area?" Tony asked.

"It's like I told the other agents. No."

"And your wife?" Gibbs asked.

"No."

Gibbs reached into the case file and placed a sheet down.

"Explain," Gibbs said.

"I don't understand," Kahale said. "Are these my phone records?"

"Yeah," Tony said, "There were three calls during the night. One of which you made. You called Michael."

"How do you know it was Michael? It could've been anyone."

"Like who?" Tony asked. "Who would you call at one in the morning that used a number that magically disappeared after use?"

There were a couple of 'um's and 'well's as Kahale fished for an answer. And Gibbs was able to fill in Kahale's awkward moment. "Adrian Rodriguez."

Johnathan Kahale blinked. "Who?"

"Don't know him?" Tony said, hoping to get any sort of recognition, although it was apparent the name was meaningless to the man. "First Lieutenant Adrian Rodriguez. He was assigned to the same ship as your son. He used the same technique Michael used. Make a call. Dump the phone. You have quite the phone history. Remarkably, so do the First Lieutenant's parents. In fact, most of the calls you received from out of service numbers align perfectly with the First Lieutenant's folks. Gap lengths and all. Same day. Same hour. Same location."

Kahale sighed heavily. "It was Michael."

"Why'd you call him?" Gibbs asked.

"Wanted to set up a place to meet?" Tony suggested. "A place to kill him?"

"No! Never!"

"So why lie about contacting him?" Tony asked. "Was it your wife? She doesn't like him. That much is obvious. So what? Keep it hidden? Keep the son you had with another woman a little secret?"

"Michael wasn't some dirty secret!"

"He went missing," Gibbs said.

"Yeah," Tony said, adding some interpretation to that topic. "Why did he run away?"

Kahale shifted in his seat. "He didn't run away," he said. But his posture displayed the doubt he had. Interesting. If he had communicated with his son, shouldn't he have known the answer to that?

Gibbs opened the file again and placed down pictures of Michael's body in autopsy. He also placed down Ducky's official report. "He had tissue and muscle scars old enough to have been done before he disappeared," Gibbs said.

Kahale's eyes flashed up at Gibbs. "You imply that he had ever been beaten in my home, Agent Gibbs?"

"He was different," Tony said, hoping to diffuse the situation and redirect some of the clear revulsion from Kahale onto himself. "No pictures. No social life. Behavioral problems. No steady school. Mother doesn't exist. Who was she? Just some random chick?"

"She wasn't random. And she wasn't just some chick. She was intelligent. Exquisite. Knowledgeable about every subject. Well-travelled. Skilled beyond measure. She knew me before I even laid eyes on her. She's a goddess. And I fell for her, even knowing the consequences."

Wow. Tony might be jealous if his partner lit up like that about a previous flame that had no records. Not to mention, bringing a kid into the picture.

"I loved his mother. I still do. No matter how much she may now despise me. And I love Michael. I could never blame him for any of the things he brought with him. How could I blame him?"

'Blame him?'

"What happened?" Gibbs asked.

"Why'd he leave?" Tony said.

Kahale let out a breath. "He wanted to find his mother's relatives."

"Is she dead?" Tony asked.

Kahale shrugged. How helpful.

"You didn't know where they were?" Gibbs asked.

"No."

"So, what," Tony said, wrapping his head around this idea. "You just let a ten-year-old kid travel the country? Unsupervised? Alone? With not a clue where to go?"

"It wasn't planned," Kahale said, "He didn't say anything; he just left."

"But," Tony dragged the vowel out. "You were okay with his disappearance?"

The silence was the confirmation.

This was crazy! Who would do that? No, scratch that. Tony knew the answer to that. But these people just didn't fit that profile. This guy had to be lying. He was just following the given story, hoping that it would pan out.

"Well," Tony said, "that would explain why a couple of lawyers sent a missing person file knowing nothing would happen."

"Get someone to review his statements," Gibbs said, packing up the case file. "You're not charged with murder yet, but you will be charged with a list of other crimes."

Tony flung the door out dramatically. "Yeah, like child neglect."

Gibbs walked out, and Tony started to close the door, slowing down so it wouldn't close too fast. He waited for Kahale to plea. To bargain. To let loose.

But he didn't. And Tony had to eventually close the door. The click as empty as the amount of nothing they had gotten from that interrogation.

-Ζήβα-

Ziva sat on the corner of the table as Gibbs took up his spot on the chair.

Patricia Kahale sat on the other chair, hands folded and eyes pointed straight at the one-way viewing glass. She had remained silent on the car ride over. Interestingly enough, she had not requested a lawyer even though promising she would when last questioned.

Gibbs placed down the profiles of the two children, Jeremy Swallar and Natasha Hibashira.

"Last time you were here," Gibbs started, "You told me you did not recognize them."

Gibbs waited for a reaction. Mrs. Kahale did not so much as avert her gaze.

"Mrs. Kahale?" Ziva asked. 'If this is how it's going to be, we might as well just cut-'

"Who's on the other side?"

Ziva blinked, forced out of her thoughts.

"Another agent," Gibbs said.

"One of yours?"

"Yes."

"No one else?"

"No, just my guy."

"Good."

Ziva remembered how Mrs. Kahale reacted to Agent La Rue and seemed to dislike Agent Jackson. Did she know something they did not?

Gibbs tapped on the pictures. "You said you didn't know them."

Mrs. Kahale glanced at them. "I did."

"You lied."

"A mistake, surely."

"You were seen talking to them at a bar," Ziva said.

"What did you say to them?" Gibbs asked.

"I didn't say anything to them," Kahale stated. "Besides, aren't they a little young to be at a bar unaccompanied?"

"Who said they were unaccompanied?" Ziva asked.

"Was that not what you implied? Why would I talk to them, if they had their parents with them?"

Ziva had to hand it to Kahale. She could dance. Ziva gave her a little smile. If only just.

"They were looking for a ride," Ziva said, "We believe you suggested them to go to Tarsibo. He is your client, after all."

"I did not speak to them."

"You don't want to talk about them. Fine," Gibbs said, "How about we talk about your stepson. You haven't seen him for years?"

"No."

"You haven't spoken to him?"

"No."

"Your husband was," Gibbs said.

"N-" Mrs. Kahale stopped and threw them a questioning look. "If he was, I have no knowledge of that."

Ziva frowned. "So, you did not know that your husband was in regular contact with Michael?"

"No."

"Did you know your husband called him right before he died?" Ziva asked.

"No."

"You told me you didn't know he joined the Marines. Did you not know what happened to him? That he was even alive? Did you not care? Your husband never told you anything, and you never asked?"

"No," Mrs. Kahale said.

Ziva leaned back. One word for all of her questions. She was used to it, but Gibbs at least cared.

"I suppose it was his way of respecting my desire to not be a part of it," Mrs. Kahale said. She scoffed. "His way of shielding me from that side of his life."

"His ex-wife," Gibbs clarified.

"She was never his wife," Mrs. Kahale said.

Gibbs shrugged. "Your husband had a kid with her. He speaks very highly of her. I would understand if you were resentful."

Mrs. Kahale glared at him. "I don't hate her, Agents," she said, "But if she's so smart, why does she make so many rash decisions? I'll tell you why. Selfishness. Pride. She doesn't have to deal with the consequences of her actions. Someone else always deals with them."

Ziva raised an eyebrow. Yes. Definitely resentful.

"Sounds like you know her," Gibbs said.

"No. But I've heard plenty of stories."

"What kind of stories?" Ziva asked.

"Dramas."

Gibbs hummed. "You would describe them as tragedies?"

Mrs. Kahale lifted her chin. "I would."

"Like the epic stories of the Greek myths," Gibbs said.

Mrs. Kahale said nothing.

"Your husband said she was a goddess. So, was he a part of some cult?"

Mrs. Kahale kept silent.

Ziva narrowed her eyes. The woman obviously did not like whatever it was her husband and this mystery woman were a part of. Why keep silent?

"You can tell us what's going on," Ziva said, "We will help you. Why don't you say anything? Are you being threatened? Your children are here and safe."

Mrs. Kahale swallowed. "It's nothing like that."

Oh, but it was. There was a response at the indication of being threatened and her kids, just as clear as to when Gibbs mentioned Greek myths.

"The kids," Gibbs said, tapping the pictures. "How do they fit in this?"

The woman looked down and took a breath, collecting herself. Ziva sat back. 'Just when we were making progress.' Were they looking at this wrong? Were the kids simply an unrelated event?

Patricia gave an annoyed huff. "As I already told you-"

The files flew from the desk. Gibbs was frustrated. Ziva did not envy this woman. He slammed his hands on the table, glaring down at her. "Then tell me something new. And make it the truth."

No. Ziva did not envy this woman at all.

The door clicked open.

Gibbs turned his death glare at McGee.

"Um, B-Boss," he stammered, "you really need to know this."

Ziva quickly followed after Gibbs. Although apparently suicidal, McGee was still a dear friend, and Ziva wouldn't like to see Gibbs murder him.

Gibbs growled. "What."

McGee nervously wet his lips.

"Well, Ducky has already released his findings. All these reporters who were following the case got them and reported the info to their respective medias. Reshaun Sachs, the bartender; you knew that, of course- well know, you haven't forgotten. Well, he decided to find out what was going on since his business is obviously involved and-"

Oh no. McGee was rambling. And Gibbs's face was darkening with each word. Would her gun be helpful? Or perhaps her knife would be more practical. She decided on simply clearing her throat. Loudly. McGee stuttered to a stop. Ziva gave him a pointed look.

Ziva was relieved when she saw his face alight with understanding.

"Patricia Kahale was at The Drowsy Owl during the time of death. She could not have killed Staff Sergeant Michael Kahale."

-Αντώνης-

Tony did not like this.

He watched as Gibbs and Ziva entered the interrogation room.

"You are free to go, Mr. Kahale," Ziva said.

"Thank you. If I can just see my wife, then we can-"

"Your wife isn't cleared," Gibbs said.

"What?"

"She admitted to killing your son."

"What?! No! She couldn't have."

"How do you know?" Ziva said, clicking the door shut behind her.

"She was at home."

"Weren't you home as well?"

"Yes, but- she just couldn't have done it."

"We know," Gibbs said, taking a seat. "Although not in your house, she is witnessed being at a bar during the time of the murder."

"Then you know she didn't do it. That she's innocent."

"Mr. Kahale, aren't you curious as to why she would be at a bar so late at night?" Ziva asked. "Not telling you and lying that she was?"

"Maybe she was meeting with her friends. I trust my wife."

"Have any idea as to whom these friends might be?" Gibbs said.

"No, I did not see them."

"What did they tell you?"

"Nothing. As I said. I did not see them."

"But you spoke with them. You received a call before and after you spoke with Michael. A blocked number."

"You had to be awake to answer your phone. You had to have known your wife was not lying asleep next to you. Why did you lie?"

"No, I-"

"Did you follow her?" Ziva said.

"Were you at your house?" Gibbs asked.

"Ye-"

"We have your kids here," Ziva said, "We can ask them."

"How about you ask them?" Gibbs said.

"Stop, please-"

"Maybe," Gibbs said, "you can tell them why you killed their brother."

"THEY HAD HER!" Mr. Kahale screamed. "They had Patty! And they were going to kill her! Unless…unless…"

"Unless you killed Michael," Ziva finished for him.

A gasp broke Tony's attention away from the interrogation room to the reason he was placed behind the glass. Patricia Kahale stood next to him with her hands over her mouth, staring intently at the scene before her.

"I warned him. I called him. They gave me a car and a bullet. I needed to save my wife. I wanted him to help me. But he said there was no time and that there was no one in D.C. that could help."

He bowed his head. "They had my wife," he sobbed.

"No," Patricia whispered.

"She's not part of this life," Mr. Kahale said, "She shouldn't die from it. How could I have brought her into it?"

"No," Patricia said again, and the look in her eyes gave Tony a bad feeling. "John, no!"

Tony was a half-second too late. The woman ran out of the viewing room. Tony sped out after her to see her flinging the interrogation room open.

"How could you do it?!" She cried.

"Boss," Tony said, "I'm sorry she just…" He stopped as Gibbs held a hand up.

"I'm sorry," Mr. Kahale said, "But I couldn't let you be involved. I couldn't let them have you! And you came back home and didn't say anything, acting fine-"

"I was always involved! Michael's stench led them to our family even after he left. They threatened to take me, you, our kids. They told me what they did to people."

"You took up a deal," Gibbs said, "You help them get what they wanted, they leave you alone."

Mrs. Kahale nodded.

"How many are there?"

"Too many. It's a nest that has grown through some sort of pact between them all, and nothing is killing them."

"Why didn't you call the police?" Ziva asked her.

"That would just make things worse. Besides, Michael has obviously delivered a message to his people."

Gibbs froze for a second.

"Boss?" Tony asked. What was going on?

Gibbs snapped out of it. "You two," he told the Kahales, "Stay."

He stalked out of the room. Ziva and Tony followed, having to jog to keep up with him. Tony quickly texted McGee a heads up and to send the Kahale kids back upstairs. When Gibbs took the stairs, they knew whatever he figured out was bad.

"McGee!" Gibbs barked. "Search the Long Island team."

"But I already- okay," McGee easily complied, after looking at his boss, "Looking up Lima."

McGee shared his screen on the plasma as he loaded up the federal database.

"No," Gibbs said, "Not Lima. Don't go through any federal sites."

"Um, okay? Doing an internet search of Percy Jackson."

"News sites," Gibbs said.

"Boss there are hundreds of Percy Jacksons," McGee scrolling through articles, "We'll never find-"

"That one," Gibbs pointed.

It was an article from a few years ago. "Percy Jackson, Criminal or Victim?" The photo had an image of a young, disheveled Percy Jackson. And by his side…

McGee was freaking out. "Boss, I'm sorry. Their profiles should have-"

"Her," Gibbs pointed, "Age her up to now."

"Right. Aging."

McGee cut out the photo of the blonde and plugged it into the program. He had wisely shut his trap. As the image began to come into focus, Tony felt his heart stop. There was no denying it.

"Gibbs," Ziva said, quietly, "That's-"

BANG! Gibbs slammed his desk drawer closed and shoved his firearm in its place at his hip. There was utter silence in the bullpen as Gibbs strode off.

A few seconds later, Tony was the first to move. No matter how angry Gibbs was, Tony was still a cop. The rest of his teammates quickly followed.

They left the image of Annabeth Chase, otherwise known as NCIS Special Agent Anne Lima, on the screen behind them.

Previous Chapter Chapter List Next Chapter

#scarpool #fanfic #fanfiction #Godly Marine: KIlled #NCIS #hoo #PJO #Crossover #gen fic #PG/K+#Writing #Complete

3 notes · View notes

somedayonbroadway · 4 years

Note

Hi there! I hope you’re doing well! :) I was just wondering if you’ve ever thought about doing a Peter Pan au.

I have! In fact, me and my friend @bexlynne discussed one a long time ago!

I like the idea! It’s gonna be a little different…

Just to be clear, there are no ships really in this story. But I suppose if you want to see a ship, you can? More power to ya’ll! Also, this is mostly based off of the animated movie because it’s been a long time since I’ve read the book.

Peter Pan AU

Characters

Jack Kelly — Peter Pan

Sarah Jacobs — John Darling

David Jacobs — Wendy Darling

Les Jacobs — Michael Darling

Mayer Jacobs — Mr. Darling

Esther Jacobs — Mrs. Darling

Warden Snyder — Captain Hook

Katherine Plumber — Tinkerbell

Obadiah Weisel — Mr. Smee

Racetrack Higgins — Nibs

Crutchie Morris — Tootles

Mush — Slightly

Elmer — Curly

Mike and Ike — the twins

Riddle — The Mermaid

Sniper — Tiger Lily

David Jacobs, the eldest of the Jacobs children, even if only by a few minutes, loves to tell stories of the boy who never grows up. He doesn’t know the mysterious boy’s name, but knows nearly everything else about him, including the fact that he can fly and had fled to Neverland to avoid what David can only describe as monsters.

When his mother had told him the story, they had been abusive parents.

David loves to sit Les down in his lap at night and tell him about this boy who he gave the name “Jack” long ago. Sarah loves to put in her two bits too. She loves to talk about how Jack charms the mermaids and fights pirates.

Their parents are kind to them. Their mother babies them, while their father tries to get them to see reality, not necessarily a fan of the tales of the boy who flies. He wants his kids, especially his eldest son to grow up, though Davey doesn’t truly know what that means.

Jack is a story Davey believes he’d created, as he’d had dreams about this magical place where he could never grow old and explore to his heart's content. He didn’t necessarily believe the stories to be true, not like his baby brother.

One night, Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs are going out to a party, leaving the kids alone.

It’s brushed off when Les tells his parents and his siblings that he caught the shadow of the boy who flies. Davey thinks he’s creating a story, using his imagination. So he leaves the window open for Jack before they go to sleep.

He never expected for a boy to actually fly through his window with a little fairy on his shoulder.

Jack arrives, looking frantically for his shadow in the home of the boy who loved to tell all of his wildest adventures.

He finds his shadow locked in a box beneath the youngest boy’s bed. When he opens it, the thing takes off around the room until he’s able to catch it, waking up little Les who’s only six at the time. He doesn’t notice, much too occupied with trying to get his shadow attached at his feet.

Les asks him why he’s using soap instead of glue and Jack doesn’t know what he means. So Les runs to get Jack some glue and sticks his shadow back on. Jack is so happy that he flies around the room. Les jumps on Davey and Sarah’s bed, waking them and telling them that Jack’s there. When he tries to introduce Jack to them, Jack insists that he knows Davey, that Davey’s been on adventures with him.

Adventures that Davey thought he’d dreamt up.

Davey starts to realize that this is real and doesn’t know what to say. But Jack just gets very excited and asks Les if he wants to learn how to fly. Sarah tries to calm him down and discourage the idea, nervous for her brother’s safety, but, after freeing Katherine from a drawer she’d gotten stuck in during Jack’s initial excitement, she finds that Les really can fly with Jack’s intrusions and a little bit of pixie dust.

Jack then invites the Jacobs siblings to join him in Neverland. Curious about this place, Les immediately follows Jack as he flies out the window, prompting Sarah and Davey to follow them immediately, yelling at their brother to come back for only a moment before they realize they’re flying over New York City without the fear of falling.

Jack takes them on an adventure, revealing that the entrance to Neverland is the second star to the right but going straight to it is not as much fun as flying around for hours. They play tag and hide and seek in the air as Katherine flies on ahead of them, jealous of the fun that Jack is having with all these strangers.

Katherine flies back to the lost boys, a group of kids that Jack saved from unsafe homes and places. She explains that Jack is on his way back to them and wants them to shoot the other kids that are with him out of the sky. Loyal to Jack, the boys all gear up to do just that.

Meanwhile, Captain Snyder and his crew are looking for Jack, waiting for him to return so that they can take him down, wanting revenge from the boy for cutting his hand clean off. Jack did this before feeding the hand to a crocodile who is constantly looking for more. When they see Jack flying back down to Neverland, they attempt to shoot him down with cannons but Jack decides to have a little fun with him, telling the Jacobs kids to play along which leads to them nearly sinking The Refugee, the pirate’s ship.

Then they head to Jack’s hideout where Davey is shot down by Crutchie who is proud of himself, despite Sarah’s cries and Les’s panic. Davey hits the ground hard, hitting his head and getting knocked unconscious. Jack shouts at Crutchie, apologizing when his right hand man points out that it was Katherine who said he’d given an order for this. Jack then banishes Katherine who gets very angry and upset.

But Jack promises she can come back in a couple of days. Then he scoops Davey up and promises him that everything will be okay. He and the boys nurse him back to health and Sarah and Les take shelter with them while she gets better.

As Davey is almost completely healed, Jack encourages his boys to take Sarah and Les out on an adventure. Sarah and Les are kidnapped by a group of trolls who believe Jack and his crew have kidnapped their princess, Sniper. Sarah tried to assure them that they did no such thing and to let all the boys go, but the trolls refuse, wanting to use them as leverage against Jack.

Jack takes Davey on an adventure all on their own, wanting Davey to meet the mermaids who absolutely adore him.

Riddle, the leader of the mermaids, tries to drown Davey. Jack doesn’t notice.

But the mermaids flea at the sight of The Refugee and Captain Snyder. Jack takes Davey by the hand and leads him off to “have fun” which consists of messing with Snyder’s right hand man, Weasel, and putting Snyder in life threatening situations. As Snyder is trying to kill Jack, Davey doesn’t stop him.

But during all of this, Jack and Davey discover a kidnapped Troll princess who is brave and waiting for Weasel to let her drown in order to spark war between the trolls and Jack’s boys and snuff out Jack’s hideaway. Jack is able to save Sniper, who is a very good friend of his, and rush her back home with Davey close behind him.

There, they square things with the Trolls and get the boys and Sarah and Les free and have a celebration of their princess’s return, telling Jack that they owed him big.

After their plot was spoiled, Snyder goes back to his ship, irritated. But Weasel stumbles upon Katherine, wandering alone and upset. He catches her in his cap and takes her back to Snyder who lies to her. He says that he has a present for Jack and needs to know where his hideout is to give it to him. So Katherine tells him, only to be locked in a cage when Snyder reveals that his real plan is to blow Jack and the boys up with a bomb.

Davey and his siblings tell Jack they need to get home, slowly beginning to get homesick. Jack says they can’t go and Les starts to cry, making Jack feel bad as all of his boys start to reminisce about their lives in the real world, picking out the good parts.

Sarah sings them a lullaby after promising that they could all come back and be adopted by their parents. The boys are excited by this. But Jack refuses, angry that his boys want to leave him.

The next morning, Davey and Sarah and Les lead the boys out of the hideout leaving Jack who receives a present. The pirates were waiting for them as the emerged.

Knowing what’s going to happen, Katherine manages to break out of her prison and snatch the bomb from Jack just as he’s opening it, but they are both caught in the explosion.

Katherine gets stuck in the rubble. Jack believes she’s dead until he finds her fading light. He manages to unbury her and hold her in his hands, promising her that he believed in her more than anyone, which is the key to saving her.

They go out to find their boys and the Jacobs children who are being held captive on the Refugee. Snyder offers them a deal; join his crew or walk the plank. Davey accepts and says goodbye to Les and Sarah as he’s led to the plank. And he steps overboard. But there is no splash.

Jack saves Davey and engages in a sword fight with Snyder, giving Snyder his word that it’ll be a fair fight and he won’t fly, as long as Snyder lets his boys go if he wins. Snyder agrees.

Jack nearly gets killed but manages to get the upper hand when the crocodile comes searching for Snyder, wanting to devour him. He pushes Snyder overboard and commanders the ship. And, with the help of Katherine, manages to get it up and flying to get back to Manhattan.

Saying goodbye to the Jacobs children is hard for Jack, as he has issues with abandonment. He reveals to Davey that Davey’s the one that gave him a name. Jack has been away from the real world for so long that he’d forgotten his given one and had heard Davey telling his stories through the window and likes the name that he’d been given. He reveals that Davey was like a friend, even if they’d only known each other for a short time and Jack promises that he’d always be nearby, even if Davey didn’t know it.

When Jack leaves, the Jacobs come home from their party and Davey tries to tell them of the adventures he’d been on.

Mr. Jacobs goes to the window and sees a ship in the clouds and reminisces about a time when he’d seen that very ship.

He kisses his son Goodnight and goes to be with his wife, telling him of the adventures of a boy he made up when he was young. A boy with the name of Peter Pan.

For more Mood Boards and AUs, click here!

21 notes · View notes

curlytemple · 4 years

Text

alrighty @scottspack here i am to show my ass

top 10 ships tag! these aren’t “in order” but #1 is #1

1. cory and topanga! (boy meets world) my very first thought when given this prompt, theyre the blueprint! they are just BABIEs when they meet and they already Know each other. i will not pretend that topanga didnt shape me into the kind of girl who wouldnt change one thing about herself for a boy, keep your legs hairy and your convictions strong! the way they grow together is enough to make me hate god for not giving ME a cory matthews. high school ski trip infidelity aside, theyre the first couple that made me think i could find a man. i was wrong but its nice to think about.

2. kim possible and ron stoppable... the way the entire series is about kim being a wildly competent type A cheerleader AND teenage vigilante super spy and ron is her chilled out lame best friend who is Always there to help her save the day... please take a moment to listen to the jesse mccartney song why don’t you kiss her? that plays during the romantic climax of the kim possible movie, perfectly capturing the intense fear that comes with thinking about maybe finally kissing your best friend from preschool at your junior prom.

3. tami and coach eric taylor (friday night lights) ...come on, y’all!!!! genuinely the most real relationship i have ever seen on screen. i don’t even know what to say other than that they are REAL. coach and tami are such a good couple that it doesn’t make any sense to me that their kid would have such a massive stick up her ass. i even tried an ‘empathize with julie’ rewatch, and while a lot of her teen angst is understandable and even relatable, she still seems so disconnected from her parents/dillon at the end of the show in a very unsatisfying way! coach and tami are the heart of fnl. and tim riggins.

4. belly conklin and conrad fisher (the summer i turned pretty trilogy by jenny han) bro.... when your mother’s dying wish is for you to care for your little brother, so when he has a little crush on the girl you are In Love With you bury your feelings and go to college far away because nothing is more important than their happiness, and they could be happy together! and years go by and theyre going to get married and youre set on being Happy For Them until you find out how much your brother has actually done to break her heart and her trust and then the thought of her settling for him is even more devastating than your true desire for her to settle for you.... WHEW! when you’ve been busy coming of age and trying to make it work with your best friend that isnt really right for you and then you find out his brother who you’ve been in love with your whole life turned into a distant asshole because the most important person in yalls lives taught him to be selfless and he over-corrected in his grief... BOY!! this one makes me feel like my heart is in my stomach.

5. SENSE8! can i just say all of it? everything and everyone? if you are bisexual and havent watched sense8 yet, this one is for us, baby! the ship is an interconnected web of LOVE AND TRUST. the pairings are endless. if i HAD to choose my fav, wolfgang and kala (and rajan <3) and i cant explain why i would pick them over anyone else, thats just what my pussy told me. but frankly i shouldnt have to choose, THEY ALL SHARE ONE CONSCIOUSNESS! ONE LOVE!

6. david and patrick (schitt’s creek) you know the way we all feel like we aren’t enough and we’re Way Too Much.. dan levy really said hey guys? no offense but i think we might be capable of loving and even maybe Being Loved. the way patrick is all in on david rose from the moment he meets him, before he can even consider what that means about himself... the way they push each other out of their comfort zones and only get more comfortable with themselves and each other.. the way david’s abstract monochrome wardrobe fills with HEARTS AND RAINBOWS !!!!!! again, where’s my man? ANYWAYS,

7. todd and rory (straight up) anna said this post is for romantic ships only and so I CAN AND WILL INCLUDE THEM. i don’t want to give any spoilers because i dont think tumblr has seen this yet, but when i say this is THE romcom of the year, perhaps of my life, trust!! todd is a gay man with a sex aversion who decides to try to date women and rory is the brilliant woman he actually falls in love with. sometimes soulmates dont fuck!!! maybe there are no rules to a good relationship besides mutual respect, understanding, and the undeniable desire to Be Together. i rest my case!

8. drew barrymore and adam sandler is this valid? again i dont know or care. i grew up on adam sandler movies and drew barrymore makes him better every time. they’ve only done 3 movies together, one of which i have not and will not see (2014 is just too cursed to return to) but even tho these two have never been a couple in real life their chemistry is so palpable that they consider each other the person they will grow old with on screen. if that’s not hollywood romance, i dont know what is! sorry to timothy olyphant but even drew says adam is The One.

9. stef and lena adams-foster (the fosters) MOM AND MOMMA! listen, abc family shows are insane, but stef and lena make the drama worthwhile. their house full of teens is not perfect or easy, but never have i ever seen lesbian moms at the center of any media, let alone ones who thrive like they do when they communicate, support each other, and lead with love. this is a couple who chooses each other and their babies over and over again. its about putting in the work, having the tough conversations, and making the hard decisions because you care!!!!!

10. I DONT KNOW HOW TO END THIS, I LOVE LOVE! michael and alex! marshall and lily! steve and nancy AND jonathan! lizzie mcguire and gordo! rachel and griffin mcelroy! nick and jess! schmidt and cece! fleabag and the priest! amy pond and rory! river song and the doctor! ROSE and the doctor! MY MOM AND DAD!!!! mickey and ian! han and leia! johnny and gheorghe! princess bubblegum and marceline the vampire queen! jackie and kelso! jackie and HYDE! donna and eric! kitty and red! richie and eddie! jake and amy! brittany and santana! tim and tyra! JACK AND ENNIS! dj and steve! uncle jesse and aunt becky! aziraphale and crowley! bob and linda belcher! LARRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#will i ever be comfortable posting my thots and onions? maybe not #but here they are!#liv when i read [explanation redacted] i have never felt so close to you #love to socialize on tumblr dot com !

7 notes · View notes

iinxdecisionss · 4 years

Text

MASS MUSE LIST

Note: All of my muses are open to ships (unless listed otherwise), canon, and AU verses. I openly RP with anyone from any fandom. Open to darker plots and themes with any who are listed as OK to do so.

THE MAIN CAST

Holly “Veronica” Fraiz: OC. Half-human, half-vampire. Dhampir. Daughter of the “Devil’s house” regent Kraven and Moira the human nurse. Was raised by her mother and step-father, Roose, in a quiet country-side home that could adhere to her ‘symptoms.’ When Moira and Roose died in a car accident she finally went to her vampire brethren pleading for sanctuary as she didn’t know where else to go or who else she could trust with her secret. Though they were suspicious about her being a ‘half-blood,’ they indict her into their ranks and now she trains as an ambassador for the vampire covens. her ability to move about in the daylight is a huge help. Moira told her daughter who her father was but Holly has not told anyone the truth for fear of being judged. She prefers to be called by her middle name, Veronica. Only those really close to her could call her by her first name. NSFW ALLOWED.

Selene: CANON. Corvinus hybrid vampire. Selene is a vampire soldier known as a Death Dealer. For over 600 years she has fought in the lycan-vampire war to avenge her family who was supposedly killed by lycans when she was still a mortal. The vampire Elder, Viktor, turned her and gave her the strength and powers to avenge her kin. Little did she know it was actually him who killed her family and when she discovered the truth she killed the vampire Elder and has been on the run with Michael since. Ships selectively. Mainly with Michael rpers but open to other relationship if they are established in threads beforehand. NSFW ALLOWED.

David: CANON. Pure-born vampire son of Thomas and the late Elder Amelia. Progeny of Selene, the current Elder, and rightful heir to the Eastern coven. Going from a rogue to a leader, David is incredibly brave and loyal to his species and will not hesitate to act on his choices whether or not he stands alone. David fights when no one else will and goes out of his way to defend others and puts their lives before his. He is an opportunist and highly believes in resistance when it comes to problem-solving. Views Selene as a mother figure and teacher. He has a lot of respect for her and stands by her on her decisions. NSFW ALLOWED.

Michael Corvin: CANON. Michael Corvin is the human descendant of the Founding Father Alexander Corvinus. He came to Budapest to become a surgeon and was wrangled into the unseen war between lycan and vampires when his blood was proven to be the key to the perfect blend of the species. He was first changed into a lycan by Lucian and then into a vampire by the Death Dealer Selene in an effort to save his life. Creating him to be the first hybrid of the two species. For this reason he is highly sought after and hunted. He is the lover of Selene and father to Eve. (LISTEN I’VE SEEN THE MOVIE BUT OUT OF PURE SPITE HE IS COMPLETELY AU HERE. WHAT HAPPENED WAS BULLSHIT AND HE DESERVES BETTER. NSFW ALLOWED BUT VERY SELECTIVE.) Ships selectively with Selene rpers.

Marius: CANON. Lycan leader who took charge after the fall of Antigen and it’s commanders, Jacob and Quint Lane. He captured the hybrid Michael Corvin and used the hybrid’s blood to enhance himself and give him an unstable amount of strength to make himself immune to silver and defeat the vampires. Marius is ambitious, cruel, and ruthless. If he forms an attachment to you it can be very hard to tell if he does it out of genuine care or if he sees a usefulness in you and nothing more. He will stop at nothing to give himself all the power he can grab. NSFW ALLOWED.

Markus Corvinus: CANON. Vampire turned hybrid Elder of the vampire covens. The first and oldest of the vampires as well as the very son of Alexander Corvinus, The Founding Father. Markus is extremely loyal and bonded to his twin brother, the first werewolf, William. Markus was turned into an hybrid after lycan blood was drained into his coffin. It twisted his genes, his body, and his mind. When he awoke destroyed the mansion he once ruled over and set out to free his brother and possibly set out to conquer the immortal and mortal races. Cold-blooded and driven, Markus won’t stop until he reaches his goals. NSFW ALLOWED.

Nara Pickett: OC. Lycan and older sister of Duncan. Nara was turned as a teenager after an attack and barely survived, coming back stronger than she had ever felt before. When her brother was turned into the lycan’s most hated enemy, the vampire, she stuck by him rather than leaving him for the sun or his own new blood-kin. The two of them stayed as hidden as they could but when Nara was attacked by a pair of vampires that almost killed her, she was taken in by lycans who found her left for dead and nursed her back to health. They refused to let her leave and convinced her that she needed to stay with her own kind for her very safety. Ten years later she found her brother but could not find it in herself to leave her new pack, thus she meets up with him in secret now. Not very feminine looking, she is one of the taller and buffer lycans in her pack with lots of scars from fights and challenges. She has won many. NSFW ALLOWED.

Duncan Pickett: OC. Vampire and younger brother of Nara. Duncan and his sister grew up in the streets with only each other after their parents died during a storm while out to sea. When his sister was attacked and turned he never left her side the whole time she was on death’s bed. Her newfound ‘condition’ was one they lived with for a few months until a rogue vampire attacked and turned Duncan. Nara came to his defense and killed the blood-sucker. They lived as well as they could for a few years until they were forcibly separated for a long time. Duncan wandered looking for his sister until his health deteriorated and he was found by a vampire patrol from a Mountain Coven. He was brought to a mountain vampire coven where he became the guardian and ‘brother’ to the Queen’s only daughter, Jasmine. Finally Nara reunited with him after ten years but they both found new responsibilities and bounds within their species. Still he could not hate or shun his sister no matter how their species waged war on each other. They continued to meet in secret. NSFW ALLOWED.

Kitridge Prairie: OC. Universal shape-shifting human who can take the form of a coyote. She has a checkered past but looks out for others despite. Has a cunning and selfish streak. Kitridge looks young for her age and is rather skinny. There’s nothing she won’t eat due to living on the streets most of her life. It’s hard to earn her full trust but once you have it her loyalty to you is unwavering. Breaking it is the worst thing you can do in her mind and she’ll never give you another chance if you mess that up. She is the adoptive mother of Tamara and Chirin. NSFW ALLOWED.

Lebya: NON-CANON. Romanian female turned lycan from the non-canon Underworld novel ‘Blood enemy.’ She is a lycan slave alongside Lucian when vampires kept lycans as their daylight guardians. Lebya is a scheming and power hungry individual who seemed to have an interest in Lucian but only for his elevated status in hopes she would gain some as well. When he ignored her for Sonja, she jealously revealed their relationship to Viktor and instead of being rewarded, she was set on fire, tossed from the castle, and into a river where she presumably drowned. She did not die and instead lived as a lone hermit and wreaking havoc and revenge on both the lycan and vampire races as her hatred for them was that strong. NSFW ALLOWED.

Tamara and Chirin: OC’s. Pureborn Lycan twins of an unknown lycan male and a lycaness consort, Tathe. Tathe did not want the children but could not leave them to die so she enlisted an old acquaintance she knew could be trusted to raise them away from their sociopath father. The children live quite differently from others of their kind with only their adoptive mother in a cottage with woods to run and play in. Tamara can display her mother’s hard-set temper and arrogance while her brother is more soft-hearted. Both are still children. Ages can vary depending on verse. NO NSFW.

(I say unknown father because it brings so much more potential for possible angst and drama in threads. Let me know if you’re interested in tossing a male muse into this mix.)

Damien and Mischala: OC’s. Half lycan/half human twins born to Quint Lane and Petra Nikonova. Petra is an OC who belongs to @silencedsonatas. These two have two verses that could work.

1. Before they were born their mother escaped the from the den their father was holding her in and gave birth to them with Kitridge to help her. Petra left them with her and never looked back.

2. They were born into their father’s hands and Petra was let go (or escaped) seeing as she served her purpose and gave Quint what he wanted. In this verse they would be raised by him. Damien looks the most like his father but has lighter hair like his mom. He is overprotective of his twin and keeps an eye on her at all times. He can act rough and talk loudly but he doesn’t really have it in him to be cruel like his papa. When he play-fights he always does so to win but will purposely hold back with Mischala. His sister inherited more of her mother’s looks but with her father’s hair. She is more quiet and clever than her brother. She has a sweeter disposition but will sink to very petty levels to get what she wants. NO NSFW.

——

SECONDARY CHARACTERS

These are characters I have newly made or do not have the strongest muse for. Nevertheless if you want to rp with one just drop me an IM!

—————————————————————————————————————————

Kassa Decaro: OC. Pureborn vampire of lowborn vampire parents. The only daughter of Kavek and Kassandra Decaro. Kavek turned Kassandra after the two fell in love and she gave him a single child that they raised for up to three years before the Purges threatened their livelihood and they left their child with Kassandra’s mortal sister in an attempt to keep her safe. An aging woman named Sheila who knew of her sister’s condition as the two of them were the only family they had left since their parents died. Kassa’s parents were killed days later and Sheila raised her niece as well as she could up until she was 12. When the Feds began door-to-doors once again Sheila rushed Kassa out and searched tirelessly until finding a group of vampires trying to reach a safe haven. Sheila begged them to take Kassa and raise her among her own. Sheila was killed for distracting and ‘betraying’ the mortal authorities. Kassa is played as a 14-16 year old. NSFW NOT ALLOWED.

Vestor: OC. Coven librarian and considerably one of the largest and most big-boned vampires you will ever lay eyes on. He fits well into the ‘crusty and grumpy ol’ pouter’ who will break your bones if you so much as get a smudge on the dusty pages of his books. Vestor is of an unknown past and age and refuses to discuss with anyone, even the Elders. He always seems to hold a grudge but no one truly knows to who or what excactly. NSFW ALLOWED IF YOU ARE INTO REALLY OLD AND GRUMPY GUYS.

Andreas Tanis: CANON. Vampire historian and bibliophile. Tanis is a very intelligent and resourceful vampire who was sent away in exile from the covens after recording what the Elder Viktor called “malicious lies.” In reality he may have been telling the truth. He is quite old and knows much about the vampire/lycan wars, how they started, what spurred them on, and all those guilty parties involved. NSFW ALLOWED.

Abigail Whitaker: OC. Universal mortal serial killer based off a dream. Abigail grew up with a mentally ill mother and a father who was not home very often. Neglected and malnourished, she grew up skinny and with stunted growth. Very lonely at home and in school when she managed to make it. Abigail enjoyed finding dead things and taking them apart carefully into little pieces. At first she only focused on animals but one day she discovered her first dead body and managed to drag it into a shed where she went back day by day to take it apart. One night a thief broke into the house and she killed him after he had taken her mother’s life. The girl’s own mental state was not quite right afterwards. NSFW ALLOWED. Darker themes encouraged.

#some small tweaks here and there #muse list #mass muse list #oc #canon #non canon #NEW CHARACTER!

3 notes · View notes

aion-rsa · 3 years

Text

James Bond Movies Ranked From Worst to Best

https://ift.tt/2Y4vnBu

When Ian Fleming first created the character of 007, he settled on calling him James Bond because it was the “dullest name I’ve ever heard.” How ironic that nearly 70 years after that decision, and almost 60 years since the first James Bond movie, Dr. No (1962), that moniker is still associated around the world with thrilling action and exotic danger.

Beginning with the first Bond film from producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and which starred Sean Connery as the international man of mystery, 007 has burrowed into the global zeitgeist. And he’s never left. There have been 24 canonical Bond films produced by either Broccoli and Saltzman, or their successors Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, and six actors who’ve donned the tuxedo during that run. Over the years, the debate has been endless over who is the Best Bond, and which is the best Bond movie. Well, we’re here to settle that latter argument once and for all. The entire Den of Geek staff, as well as our readers, have been asked to pick their favorite 007 adventures, and to rank which are the best. Below is the definitive list.

*Editor’s Note: We have chosen to only rank films in the official series and that were produced by Eon Productions. For that reason, unconnected Bond films like Never Say Never Again (1983) and Casino Royale (1967) were not included.

24. Die Another Day (2002)

Like his two most famous predecessors, Sean Connery and Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan ended his four-film run as James Bond on a particularly low note. In fact, Die Another Day (which was also the 20th film in the official series) has ended up on many lists, including this one, at the very bottom. It is certainly the nadir of the Brosnan era, although whether it fulfills the same role for the entire series is debatable. I might even argue films like Quantum of Solace and A View to a Kill could say “hold my beer” to that dubious honor.

Die Another Day starts off promisingly enough, with Bond captured and tortured in North Korea for 14 months, leading M to decommission him on fears that he may be compromised. But a potentially intriguing thriller involving North Korean double agents and the smuggling of conflict diamonds devolves into a ludicrous romp about an ice palace, giant lasers redirecting sunlight, an invisible car that’s indestructible, and a fight aboard an airplane literally coming apart in mid-air. Throw in one of the series’ worst theme songs (courtesy of Madonna), uninspired performances from a tired Brosnan and Halle Berry, and you ultimately find yourself wishing that the movie itself would die—not another day, but right now. – Don Kaye

23. Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

What is it with Bond and diamonds? This is one of two 007 escapades involving the world’s hardest substance (the other is Die Another Day) and based on that, the series should stick to gold. Diamonds Are Forever marked the return of Sean Connery after a one-film absence from the series, but it’s clear from the start that the doughy-looking star is just phoning in his performance (from which, to be fair, he donated his salary to charity).

Directed by Bond mainstay Guy Hamilton, Diamonds goes for a jauntier, campier tone after the grim ending of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, with Bond tracking a diamond-smuggling operation that ultimately leads him to arch-nemesis Blofeld (whose murder of Bond’s wife in the previous movie is inexplicably never addressed, not even once). The movie is just entertaining enough that you can keep it on in the background while doing something else, but its dreary ending on an oil rig, dated homophobia (Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint, anyone?), and by-the-numbers vibe make this one a real cubic zirconia. – DK

22. Quantum of Solace (2008)

Quantum of Solace’s biggest crime is that it’s just so dull. From the desert backdrops that were used for the final act to the sterile environments where middling Bond villain Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) executes his convoluted evil plan, there isn’t really anything interesting to look at in Marc Forster’s first and only 007 film. It’s no surprise, then, that this was the first stumble of the Daniel Craig era—in fact, our readers voted it in dead last place!

Movies

Should the Next James Bond Care About Continuity After Daniel Craig?

By Don Kaye

Movies

007: Ranking the 24 James Bond Villains From Best to Worst

By David Crow

It probably didn’t help that Quantum is one of the few direct sequels in the franchise, meaning that Forster had to contend with the storytelling baggage of the much better Casino Royale. At least you can say Quantum of Solace is the movie that truly established the Craig era’s continuity, with a SPECTRE-like secret organization working against MI6 at every turn, and Bond enduring the heartache of a very bad break up with Vesper Lynd in the last movie. So for a rebound, he and the rebellious Camille Montes (Olga Kurylenko) go to Bolivia. Their mission: stop a coup d’état that could give Quantum a major foothold in South America. What proceeds…isn’t all that fun. – John Saavedra

21. Octopussy (1983)

A clearly aging Roger Moore’s sixth outing as 007 (and second to last) follows the template of its predecessor, 1981’s For Your Eyes Only, with a renewed focus on geopolitical adventure and less reliance on gadgets, effects, and winking humor (although the jokes, when they do come, are more sophomoric and out of place than ever). But whereas Eyes served as a nice palate cleanser for the series, with a straightforward plot and a few offbeat touches, Octopussy is kind of a mess.

While its title is taken from an Ian Fleming short story, the mostly original Octopussy finds 007 drawn into a scheme involving Fabergé eggs, an exiled Afghan smuggler, a rogue Soviet general, and a cult of beautiful women who also run a circus, all tied to a plan to detonate a nuclear warhead on a U.S. airbase in West Germany. As you can tell from that sentence, the story is needlessly, hopelessly complicated, with an endless series of betrayals and switchbacks, the villains don’t make much of an impression either. Nor does Maud Adams in the title role as the leader of the cult; she’s meant to be a newer kind of Bond Girl, but remains ill-defined—as does much of this plodding, uninteresting entry. – DK

20. A View to a Kill (1985)

Roger Moore’s final outing as James Bond went out much like his tenure: strange, inconsistent, but maybe entertaining in a kitschy sort of way. To be sure, A View to a Kill is another one of the franchise’s low points, with Moore being particularly long in the tooth at the age of 58. He more often resembles his leading ladies’ lecherous uncle than he does a tall dark stranger. The overall film likewise suffers from a desperate, out of touch quality. Did anyone really think putting Moore (or his stuntman) on a snowboard while Beach Boys music played would bring in the kids?

Nonetheless, as bad as the movie is, there are bemusing charms, chief among them being the film’s pair of villains, ‘80s yuppie Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) and his henchwoman May Day (Grace Jones). There’s some unconvincing plot tidbits that reveal Walken’s secretly a Russian test tube baby, but that bizarre performance has no nationality. And the jarring contrast of Jones and Moore in bed—where she is totally the dominant—is one for the ages. Throw in a banger Bond song by Duran Duran and some nice character work by Patrick Macnee as Moore’s sidekick who should’ve been in the movie more, and you still have a guilty pleasure. Pity that Barbara Bach declined to cameo, as it might’ve made this a more fitting sendoff for the Moore era. – David Crow

19. Spectre (2015)

After saving the ship from capsizing with Skyfall, director Sam Mendes decided to sink it himself with the extremely convoluted, potentially era-breaking Spectre, a very busy movie that cares more about connecting the Daniel Craig movies into one “cohesive” timeline than its own largely generic spy adventure. Mendes’ attempt to present Ernst Stavro Blofeld as the big bad behind everything from Casino Royale to Skyfall largely falls flat, even if Christoph Waltz puts in a solid performance as the iconic villain. But how much of this is the director and writers’ fault, and how much of it is due to the Broccolis experimenting with the idea of a Bond cinematic universe remains unclear.

Movies

Daniel Craig Doesn’t Think a Woman Should Be James Bond

By David Crow

Movies

Casino Royale and GoldenEye Director on What’s Next for James Bond

By Don Kaye

Either way, it’s all just kind of boring. Even the budding romance between Bond and Madeleine Swann (a cunning Léa Seydoux) doesn’t really work. You can hardly believe Bond has decided to finally leave all this MI6 business behind him for love. And Blofeld’s childhood connection to the Bond family is ludicrous, too. The movie’s plot is ambitious, and completely fails at those ambitions. You’ll need patience for this one, especially if you enjoyed the more standalone Craig offerings, which this movie actively tries to break at every turn. – JS

18. Moonraker (1979)

When The Spy Who Loved Me was released two years before Moonraker, it cemented the actor’s popularity in the role (a first since Sean Connery left the franchise), and established a campy, convivial atmosphere. Looking at that movie’s box office receipts, the now solo Bond producer Cubby Broccoli went “more of this, but also Star Wars.” The result is perhaps the most spectacular misfire in 007’s oeuvre.

With a ridiculous and borderline nonsensical plot contrived solely to create a reason for Moore’s 007 to be sent to space in the third act and participate in laser fights, Moonraker is bombastic and bloated where Spy was amusing and quick-witted. The movie haplessly pinballs between inconsistent tones and styles, like sight gag of returning henchman Jaws (Richard Kiel) doing a double take before going over a waterfall as if he’s he’s Yosemite Sam, and the scene where villain Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale) feeds Bond’s latest one night stand to Rottweilers in a particularly brutal chase sequence.

Still, Moore is always affable, and for that matter so is Jaws in the film’s dynamic opening fight scene where the two duel while falling out of a plane. Plus, someone had to invent the trope of a desperate franchise film going into orbit. – DC

17. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

Roger Moore and Christopher Lee. James Bond versus Dracula. On paper this should’ve been one of the best 007 films. And for a fleeting moment, as the two performers finally have their duel and Bond stands at 10 paces from Lee’s Scaramanga, it is. Sadly that showdown only takes up a handful of minutes in this otherwise muddled affair.

Still early in Moore’s tenure as Bond, The Man with the Golden Gun finds the actor not yet locked into his interpretation of the role. At times the script even seems to be written for Sean Connery, with Bond displaying a coldness and physicality that seems unnatural to Moore. Otherwise, the movie’s awkward attempts to imitate Bruce Lee films and some rather cruel dumb blonde jokes at Britt Ekland’s expense have aged incredibly poorly. But hey, it paved the way for Hervé Villechaize to be on Fantasy Island. So there’s that. – DC

16. You Only Live Twice (1967)

Sean Connery’s fifth outing as 007 was also his last… until, of course, he made a brief return four years later in Diamonds Are Forever (and again in 1983’s non-canon Never Say Never Again). Unfortunately, the original James Bond doesn’t go out on a high note with this one: Despite its beautiful Japanese locales and the long-awaited face-to-face introduction of supervillain Blofeld (Donald Pleasance), You Only Live Twice (directed by Lewis Gilbert) reaches for epic status but already shows how the Bond franchise was running out of gas after just five years.

Following the bigger adventures and gadgets of Goldfinger and Thunderball, this one aims for the stars, literally, as Bond tries to find out who is snatching American and Soviet spacecraft out of orbit. That leads him to Blofeld and the latter’s massive lair hidden in a volcano, tropes that would be parodied for decades to come.

But You Only Live Twice—the first of many Bond entries to almost completely throw away any connection to the Fleming novel of the same name—has a perfunctory, going-through-the-motions feel and an especially racist, sexist tinge to the proceedings in Japan (even for the 1960s) that bog the movie down. Although it was a box office success, it’s clear that the franchise needed a change. – DK

15. The World Is Not Enough (1999)

The World Is Not Enough is one of the more underrated film in the 007 canon. Yes, it has problems—most notably Denise Richards’ disastrous miscasting as a nuclear scientist, as well as a climactic showdown in a submarine that falls flat. However, here’s the first film on this list that works more often than it doesn’t, and which has some of the best scenes in any Bond film. Most of them involve the film’s true villain, Elektra King (Sophie Marceau).

For the first and only time in a Bond movie, a woman is the big bad. More impressively, she’s able to fool Bond and the audience of her villainy. In this way, the franchise riffs on Bond’s past, including the loss of his wife, to sharp effect. Pierce Brosnan also may never have been better in the role than when he brings his usual levels of extreme suaveness, as well as a steely sadness. All of which culminates with Bond shooting Elektra in cold blood. The action clearly took a little more of his soul, which even M appears to lament.

Movies

The November Man and Pierce Brosnan’s Anti-James Bond Roles

By David Crow

Movies

Can No Time to Die Break the Final James Bond Movie Curse?

By David Crow

Oh yes, this is also the first Bond movie to make Judi Dench’s M a main character. In some ways, her relationship with Brosnan’s 007 is more complex than the mother-son dynamic she cultivated with Daniel Craig, and things never got weirder than her witnessing Bond and Elektra’s passion play. Lastly, the Garbage song and opening sequence are aces. – DC

14. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Pierce Brosnan’s second go in the role of Bond sees the performer both more relaxed and in command of 007’s legacy. The film is typical Eon shenanigans where a supervillain tricks world leaders into a World War III standoff—the UK and China, this time—and it’s sprinkled with similarly boilerplate action sequences. Yet Tomorrow Never Dies has aged pretty darn well since the movie’s main megalomaniac (Jonathan Pryce hamming it up to high heaven) is a blatant caricature of Rupert Murdoch. A Bond movie where 007 takes a media mogul who is triggering an international crisis to juice his cable news network’s ratings, and then feeds this guy to a buzzsaw? So satisfying.

The movie also introduced us to Michelle Yeoh as Wai Lin, who’s still among the most capable “Bond Girls” and really is 007’s equal. She might even be his superior given Yeoh’s natural martial arts talents. (It’s a real shame they didn’t let her or other Hong Kong talent choreograph the fight scenes, however.) The sequence where Bond and Lin fight for control of a motorcycle during a chase, or where Brosnan and Desmond Llewelyn snark during a particularly good Q walk-in, makes this an enjoyable if middling Bond flick. – DC

13. License to Kill (1989)

Timothy Dalton’s second and final outing as a darker, more serious Bond was met with a polarized response from both critics and fans, and remains a dark horse entry in the series. Originally titled Licence Revoked—until the studio learned that typically dumb American test audiences didn’t know what the word “revoked” meant—the movie does indeed find Bond with his licence to kill suspended by M. So he goes instead on a personal mission to avenge the savage mutilation of friend Felix Leiter (David Hedison) and the murder of Leiter’s new wife by a sadistic drug lord (Robert Davi).

It’s nice to see Leiter again (with Hedison encoring in the role after first appearing in Live and Let Die 16 years earlier), and it’s also refreshing to give Bond a more personal motivation this time out. Davi is an effective villain, good old Q (Desmond Llewelyn) gets to spend a lot more time in the field, and the climactic truck chase (staged by director John Glen, still the record-holder with five Bond films on his resume) is one of the series’ best action sequences. Sadly this darker, more violent Bond couldn’t compete with the likes of Batman and Indiana Jones at the box office in 1989, making Licence to Kill the lowest-grossing entry in the series to date—and consigning the Dalton era to the MI6 archives. – DK

12. Thunderball (1965)

When you adjust for inflation, Thunderball gives Skyfall a run for its money as the highest-grossing Bond film ever. It certainly sold the most tickets, coming out at the midpoint of the 1960s and zenith of Bondmania’s global conquest. It’s in that context which allows Thunderball to also be most enjoyable. This is the one which reimagined SPECTRE as a boardroom of baddies sitting in chairs designed to literally fire insubordinate employees; the first film where Bond and the villain swap thinly veiled insults over cards and then the spy steals the fiend’s girl right in front of him; the one where an eyepatch wearing bloke keeps pet sharks in a swimming pool. Bond even uses his jetpack!

That said, other elements have aged far less gracefully. Thunderball is probably the most sexist and misogynistic Bond movie ever produced, which has brought it under fire from even No Time to Die’s director. It’s a problematic film, but even among its dated gender politics, it should be noted henchwoman Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi) is the first woman in the series to be able to roll her eyes at Bond’s charms and mock his ego, and leading Bond Girl Domino (Claudine Auger) is still one of the series’ best: She uses Bond as much as a disposable toy as he does her. She is also the only woman in the series who kills the villain and saves 007’s bacon. It’s such a good finale it almost makes up for all those dull underwater scuba fights. – DC

11. The Living Daylights (1987)

To this day, some Bond fans would argue that Timothy Dalton didn’t get a fair shake as 007. After just two movies in the late ‘80s, he was down and out, losing his license to kill much earlier than his two major predecessors. But Dalton’s grittier, much darker Bond always faced an uphill battle of building off Roger Moore’s 12-year legacy as the superspy.

All that said, The Living Daylights is a very solid outing for Mr. Bond (and director John Glen’s fourth of five Bond films). 007 once again faces off with his archenemies at the KGB—one of the final 007 films to deal with the Cold War—and in a globetrotting adventure that takes him all over eastern Europe, Morocco, and Afghanistan. And he’s accompanied by Maryam d’Abo’s memorable Kara Milovy, a professional cellist who moonlights as a KGB sniper (sort of). Together, this entertaining duo partake in one of the greatest chase sequences in Bond movie history involving a cello case, a lot of snow, and plenty of bullets. Worth a watch for this scene alone. – JS

10. For Your Eyes Only (1981)

When you think of Roger Moore’s run of Bond films, you likely recall the high camp of cars that turn into submarines and laser guns in space. Which is why, for a while, Moore and Broccoli’s back-to-basics approach in For Your Eyes Only went somewhat overlooked. This decidedly scaled down adventure is the closest Bond came to a real Cold War thriller since From Russia With Love, and the setup is refreshingly simple too: Moore’s Bond is after a missing MacGuffin that the Soviets also want. Both parties then play spy games with local criminal syndicates in scenic Greece and the breathtaking Italian Alps.

Movies

For Your Eyes Only Was Not Supposed to Star Roger Moore

By Don Kaye

Movies

Tenet Is Christopher Nolan’s Unofficial James Bond Movie

By David Crow

The appeal of the movie is how low-key everyone plays it. There are few gadgets, no end-of-the-world stakes, and nothing which looks twee. Even the finale feels like it’s taken out of The Guns of Navarone instead of Return of the Jedi. In fact, the climactic infiltration of a Greek monastery on a high cliff is still a dazzling set-piece, and the resolution of detente between Bond and his KGB counterparts is remarkably graceful. Also Carole Bouquet as Melina, a Greek woman who’s out to avenge the death of her parents while maintaining her perfect flowing black hair, gives the movie just enough dramatic heft to standout in Moore’s run. – DC

9. Live and Let Die (1973)

Roger Moore is no saint in his first Bond outing. This is apparent from the low-key introduction where he’s more interested in hiding a delicate indiscretion with the delightful Miss Caruso (Madeline Smith) than taking an assignment from chief spy M (Bernard Lee). Later Jane Seymour’s spiritual advisor warns, “I know who you are, what you are, and why you have come,” as she peruses the tarot, oblivious to her own sad fate. Bond stacks the deck and seduces the mysticism out of her, robbing the bewitching Bond Girl of her virginity, which gives her the power of precognition. The less venial sins come from cultural appropriation.

This is as mixed a gris gris bag as any you might find at an Oh Cult Voodoo Shop, but it also makes Live and Let Die one of the most memorable of any Bond installments. It’s got snake bite rituals staged by high priest Baron Samedi (Geoffrey Holder), strongarm henchmen fortified with steel, and an archvillain so formidable, he is known throughout the world as Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto). His plan is to flood cities with free heroin so everyone will get hooked. But the most infectious hooks come from the soundtrack.

The title sequence is by far the best of any James Bond film: sensual, tropical, and brimming with danger. The theme song was written by Paul and Linda McCartney, performed by Wings, and nominated for an Oscar. The score was written by The Beatles’ producer George Martin, and was the first which was not orchestrated by John Barry. B.J. Arnau torches the title song at a nightclub and the end credits. The Olympia Brass Band leads the funeral march, while its trumpeter breaks formation to knife an officially designated onlooker. The many deaths in Live and Let Die are all very creatively executed, but the most fun parts of the film are the simplest of the gadgets. The coffin with the false bottom, the revolving booth at Fillet of Soul, and the magnetic watch. Moore is a fish out of water even before MI6 comes to Harlem. He drops patented 007 double entendre rejoinders without Sean Connery’s knowing wink but gets to play hopscotch with alligators. He would go on to be more comfortable with the part, although not as much fun. – Tony Sokol

8. Dr. No (1962)

The first James Bond movie is still one of the very best of the series. It introduced Sean Connery as the classic version of the British secret agent, and while he got more comfortable in the role in his next several outings, one could argue that he was never better than he is here—suave, brutal, slightly haunted, arrogant, and unrelenting. Almost all the Bond trademarks are established: the humor, the dynamic with boss M (Bernard Lee), the easy sexuality, the incredibly beautiful Bond Girl (Ursula Andress), and the introduction of a self-satisfied, equally arrogant supervillain (Joseph Wiseman in the title role, which would never pass muster today).

The story sends Bond to Jamaica to investigate the death of a fellow agent, only for him to come up against Dr. No. The latter is shooting down American rockets at the behest of SPECTRE, a global criminal organization intent on destabilizing the world and its fragile Cold War balance of power. Largely faithful to Fleming’s novel (which was actually the fifth in his series), Dr. No is almost understated compared to later Bond outings but introduced a hero and a franchise for the ages. – DK

7. Skyfall (2012)

What a home run of a Bond flick. Eschewing the Quantum nonsense from the previous two films, Skyfall hits much closer to home for Bond, Judi Dench’s M (her last time in the role), and the rest of MI6. When a new villain with ties to M threatens the existence of the very agency he swore to protect, an older, more-troubled-than-usual Bond comes out of self-imposed exile to make things right. The result is one of the very best third acts in Bond history, thanks to the wonderful direction of Sam Mendes, who righted the ship for Craig after Marc Forster crashed it into a reef.

Craig puts in a much more complex performance as a Bond who’s been out of the game too long, and Naomie Harris is a very welcome addition as a much more badass Moneypenny (not behind a desk!), but it’s Javier Bardem as cyber-terrorist Raoul Silva who steals this movie. Undoubtedly the best villain of the Craig era, Silva is someone you might even sympathize with (a little) once he reveals his long-buried connection to M. And we learn some huge things about Bond’s past along the way too. This is for sure the one to watch after Casino Royale. – JS

6. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

When Sean Connery left the Bond series after 1967’s disappointing You Only Live Twice, it was unclear whether the series could continue with a new face in the role. Not only did the producers come up with a surprising new Bond out of left field in George Lazenby, but he made his debut in what has rightly been reappraised as one of the best films—if not the best—in the entire series. Remarkably faithful to the novel on which it’s based, directed with flair by Peter R. Hunt (a longtime Bond editor making his one and only directorial outing), and portraying Bond in a light we’ve never seen, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is a classic.

Movies

How Sean Connery’s Singing Voice Helped Him Land James Bond

By David Crow

Games

From Russia With Love’s Game Adaptation Let Sean Connery Be James Bond One Last Time

By Matthew Byrd

While it’s hard to shake off the image of Connery, Lazenby does a much more admirable job that was acknowledged at the time in his sole appearance as 007. He’s less suave, rougher around the edges, and capable of fear and vulnerability, the latter made apparent first in his marriage proposal to romantic foil Tracy di Vicenzo (an excellent Diana Rigg) and then again in the film’s shocking, unforgettable ending. Telly Savalas is the best iteration of Blofeld to date while Hunt stages some of the franchise’s most visceral and exciting action scenes. It’s a damn shame Lazenby bowed out after this. The series might have taken an entirely different course had he stayed. – DK

5. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Roger Moore has his fans and detractors, but it’s impossible to not be smitten with The Spy Who Loved Me. It’s the peak of the outlandish “save the world” Bond movies, and it comes together like a finely strained dessert cocktail. Of course its secret is that despite being about Bond fighting another megalomaniac over some nuclear subs, TSWLM is as much a romantic comedy romp as it is an action flick. Think Ninotchka, but with submarine-cars.

Pivoting on an unlikely romance between British agent 007 and Soviet Maj. Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach), the film follows the pair as they meet cute (she sics men on Bond beneath the Pyramids of Giza), continues as they squabble over a microfilm MacGuffin, and finally sees them get together due to undeniable chemistry. They even have the third act breakup because of a little thing like realizing Bond killed her fiancé in the pre-title sequence. But when that sequence includes the greatest Bond stunt of all-time, with Rick Sylvester skiing off a a real glacier and then surviving by unfurling a Union Jack parachute, such things can be forgiven. After all, nobody does it better.

… And yes, that Carly Simon song is also the best Bond tune. – DC

4. GoldenEye (1995)

“GoldenEye saved James Bond.” This bit of conventional wisdom might be hyperbole, but it’s not far off from the truth either. In 1995, 007 was in a precarious place. The Cold War was over, rosy optimists were declaring “the end of history” in our time, and Bond hadn’t been in a movie since 1989. Worse, the last two films he did appear in were met with a mixed reception by the general public. Pierce Brosnan finally slipped into the tuxedo at a moment where many were opining if Bond was simply obsolete? “A sexist, misogynist dinosaur,” as his new M, Dame Judi Dench, might say.

The film proved all the naysayers wrong. But better than that, Brosnan and director Martin Campbell injected some vital life back in the franchise’s bloodstream. Like several other films near the top of this list, GoldenEye didn’t so much reinvent the formula as refine it with modern style and a fresh perspective. As much a template-setter for a picture perfect 007 adventure in the ‘90s as Goldfinger was to the ‘60s, this film offers a terrific villain in Sean Bean’s 006—Bond’s evil doppelgänger played by a man who could’ve been Bond—a wonderful henchwoman who is also a great Bond Girl via Famke Janssen’s Xenia Onatopp, and the most memorable method of murder this side of Oddjob’s hat. Even the M and Q scenes were crackling, especially because of the introduction of the aforementioned Dench.

Like a finely tailored suit, all the pieces come together for an even more appealing whole. Brosnan wears it well with a slightly wearier and more haunted Bond than we’d previously seen, but one who can still crack a smile while telling double entendres over martinis. When coupled with some of the best set-pieces in the franchise—from a high wire jump off a Swiss dam to Bond driving a tank through the streets of St. Petersberg—we’re left with one of the best action movies of its decade. – DC

3. Casino Royale (2006)

It’s hard to imagine the Bond franchise still thriving today without the commercial and narrative success of 2006’s Casino Royale. As the first hard reboot of the franchise, and the first in Daniel Craig’s tenure as Bond, Casino Royale took viewers back to the relative beginning of James’ career when he was still earning his license to kill and when those kills still meant something. The film replaced camp with understated performance, swagger with sentiment, and fantastical fight scenes with visceral action.

Much of the film’s success is down to the stellar casting. There’s Craig, of course, who imbues Bond with a world-weariness and bitterness that we don’t see nearly as much in the other interpretations. But there’s also Mads Mikkelsen in his English-speaking breakout role as blood-crying villain Le Chiffre, and Jeffrey Wright and Tobias Menzies in memorable supporting roles. Most integral to the film’s success, however, is Eva Green’s Vesper Lynd, who is not only one of the franchise’s best “Bond Girls,” but one of the franchise’s best characters.

On paper Vesper is a classic femme fatale. In execution, she is a complex person in an impossible situation who ultimately outsmarts Bond, even if she doesn’t wholly want to. Because of Vesper, Casino Royale is one of the few Bond films in which James loses—beating Le Chiffre and his boss Mr. White, but losing Vesper, and losing a major piece of his humanity in the process. Until the end, Vesper’s life is autonomous from Bond’s, even after they fall in love, demonstrating an agency rarely given to Bond Girls.

In some ways, it’s ironic that it was a returning Bond director who would properly bring Bond into the 21st century. Martin Campbell had previously directed 1995’s GoldenEye. This was not only Campbell’s second time directing a Bond film; it was also his second time directing a Bond film that was tasked with reinventing the franchise under a new leading man. While GoldenEye successfully did this, Casino Royale did it better. Casino Royale launched Bond into a new pop culture era in a vital way, making Bond relevant not only to longtime Bond fans but to a much broader modern audience. It is not only one of the best Bond films ever; it is one of our best modern action films. – Kayti Burt

2. From Russia With Love (1963)

Following the success of Dr. No, the Bond film series officially got underway with From Russia With Love, one of the rare 007 outings to feature continuity with the previous film while also expanding upon the template established in its predecessor. As with several of the early films, this one was faithful to the Fleming book which it was based on, as SPECTRE, seeking revenge against Bond for the death of Dr. No, creates an elaborate trap for the British agent involving a defector and several assassins.

From Russia With Love is in many ways a definitive Bond adventure, with the film standing right on the edge between Fleming’s grittier books and the more elaborate direction that the cinematic version took. Connery is even more confident and relaxed in the role, while the villains—Lotte Lenya as the vile Rosa Klebb and a young Robert Shaw as the frightening killing machine Red Grant—are two of the series’ best.

The film also introduces Q and his array of gadgets for the first time, makes the first mention of Blofeld, and establishes the pre-credits sequence that is still a part of the Bond template to this date. Whether it’s the all-time best of the series is open for debate, but it certainly has the best fight scene in the franchise between Bond and Shaw’s Red Grant, and the film itself remains right there at the top—with love. – DK

1. Goldfinger (1964)

My favorite scene in Goldfinger is not the one where Gert Fröbe’s titular villain has Bond tied to a table with a laser inching nearer—although who doesn’t love the way Fröbe’s voice rises as he says “No, Mr. Bond I expect you to die”? Nor is it the infamous moment where Bond discovers Shirley Eaton drowned in gold paint. It’s not even the laddish way Sean Connery’s lip curls as he whispers “Pussy” to Honor Blackman.

All of those things are iconic and helped give solid shape to what was previously a fluid definition for Bond and his film series. But for me, the moment where Bond and the franchise became cemented is on a golf course. It’s there that 007 and Auric Goldfinger have made a wager worth one brick of Nazi gold over who wins the next nine holes. Goldfinger of course is a cheat, and has his strongman Oddjob (Harold Sakata) sneak a ball on the green after the boss loses the real thing. But rather than call him on it or beat him despite the crooked handicap, Connery’s Bond just smirks and decides to play a trick on Mr. Goldfinger: He’ll be as dishonest and change balls out again, setting the big guy up to lose his money and his pride—even as both men are keenly aware that they despise each other, and one woman they’ve both romanced in their own broken way has died because of their little games.

It summarizes everything folks love, or love to hate, about Bond: He’s arrogant, reckless, cozy with his enemies, indifferent about his lovers, and just having the goddamn time of his life at every given moment. As per usual, Connery delivers it all with a wolfish grin and internalized chuckle, as if only he’s aware of his inherent superiority.

It’s all laid out in the best Bond movie ever made: The Shirley Bassey theme song that set the standard for every Bond opening titles sequence forever after; the tricked out Aston Martin with an ejector seat; and the wild supervillain plot about irradiating the gold bullion at Fort Knox. Goldfinger sets a perfect table for a perfect Bond movie. And it was on a golf course where Connery’s Bond began to run it. Sixty years on, he’s still winning. – DC

cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530", }).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796"); });

The post James Bond Movies Ranked From Worst to Best appeared first on Den of Geek.

from Den of Geek https://ift.tt/3zO8jnm

#aion-rsa #Den of Geek

0 notes

allthecoolboysaredead · 6 years

Text

Larry Ezekiel Goodman Bio + Tags + Headcanons

Name: Larry Ezekiel Goodman Nicknames: Darkheart, Larebear Age: 21; Can Change Birthday: February 27th Sign: Pisces Gender: Cis Male Pronouns: He/Him Sexuality: Homosexual Homoromantic Polygamous; Nonsexual unless introduced to sex by outside source (then highly sexual) Hair: Naturally Brown, dyes tips blue Eyes: Dodger Blue Skin: Pale White Height: 5′0″ Weight: 110 lbs Faceclaim: Gerhard Freidl Piercings: Horizontal Brow Piercings (Left Side), Angel Bites, Labret, Both Ears Gauged (Size 0g) Tattoos: None Scars: Nothing real noticeable

Alignment: Lawful Good Religion: Raised Roman Catholic, Aetheist Allegiance: South Park Vampire Society, Mike Makowski, Ryan Ellis

Family: Zachary Fetter (Father, Alive, Out Of The Picture); Mariah Goodman (Mother, Alive); Martin “Big M” Goodman (Uncle, Alive); Mary Goodman (Grandmother, Deceased); Ezekiel Goodman (Grandfather, Alive)

Pets: Lestat (White German Shepherd)

Personality: Adaptable, anxious, artistic, attention-seeking, caring, compassionate, compliant, desires an escape of reality, emotionally intelligent, empathetic, extroverted, forgiving, friendly, generous, gentle, gullible, impulsive, intuitive, loyal, overly trusting, passive, patient, protective, prudish, responsible, self deprecating, selfless, sensitive, shy, submissive, sullen, tolerant, worrisome

Likes: Sleeping, music, romance, visual media, swimming, the spiritual side of vampirism, comaraderie, his friends, clamato juice, deviled egg potato salad, sweets, animals, helping others, rainy/snowy weather

Dislikes: Confrontation, cruelty of any kind, thinking too much, being criticized, know-it-alls, being taken advantage of, being left out, touching fish, Swedish meatballs, bitter things, plain water, hot weather

Can Do: Drive, make telephone calls, organize events, drop everything when a friend needs him, offer advice, play instruments (Cello, piano, clarinet, a little bit of violin, kazoo), write fiction

Can’t Do: Actually kill things, relax easily, cook, math, abandon his friends, most magic, handle confrontation, get too warm, resist singing to songs he likes/knows

Mental Health Diagnosis:

PTSD: Larry was treated rather poorly up until he started school, often locked out of his mother’s room at night and left with nobody to help him through things but his uncle. His uncle was and still is a drunk piggybacking off of his mother’s paychecks, and Larry suffered a lot of physical and sexual abuse from him. To this day he dislikes being alone with the man.

Dependant Personality Disorder: Larry will pour himself into other things in order to escape his actual reality. Because of this, he takes on the brunt of handling most Vampire Society affairs, including but not limited to booking events and venues, securing timetables and even setting up the occasional bake sale. The busier he can stay, the happier he is.

Physical Health Diagnosis:

Flat Feet: Larry has to wear special inserts in his shoes because his feet have no arches in them. It occasionally makes running hard.

Fears: Being forgotten, aliens, being eaten alive, earthquakes

Positive Traits: Loyal, trustworthy, tolerant

Negative Traits: Self-deprecating, anxious, worrisome

Quirks: Listens to such a wide variety of music it’s hard to pinpoint his tastes; Likes peanut butter and cheese sandwiches; Has an interest in all occult/supernatural things but vampires are his number 1

Tends To: Busy himself to the point of forgetting himself; Become nonverbal during conflict; Cling to his dog when scared

History: The timing couldn’t have been worse for Larry to have been a shine in his parents’ eyes. Zach Fetter was content to be the guy Mariah Goodman’s parents couldn’t stand, and she was content to know she was breaking rules, until Larry came into the picture. The minute it turned from rebellion into the possibility of a family, all parties tried to run. Mariah, sadly, was a little stuck. She couldn’t get an abortion, and had to temporarily move back in with her parents until Larry was born. He spent the beginning of his life mostly with his grandparents, while his mother got back on her feet with a job.

When he was three, his uncle was released from prison and his mother moved out of her parents’ house to move in with her brother. The initial idea was for him to get a job and help out, but something always got in the way. He spent a lot of time babysitting Larry, who began to behave differently. Quiet, more sullen, he flinched a lot in the presence of his uncle and refused to talk about it. By kindergarten, he was reluctant to do much on his own, and immediately clung to an older kid by the name of Mike Makowski.

They became fast friends, and Larry was ever loyal to any of Mike’s causes, even if he was a year younger than him. When they became the South Park Vampire Society in fourth grade (fifth for Mike), Larry was a dutiful second in command that spent as much time as he could with his friends. They were all a very close-knit group, and even as they grew and everyone else changed, Larry didn’t see a whole lot of it.

He let himself be so enveloped in his work for his friends, in spending time with them and helping them with problems, that he never thought of much else. Most things that regular teenage boys did escaped him, barring his schoolwork, and he was always probably the least sexual of the vampire kids. Not to say that he didn’t like people that way, or that he didn’t have the thoughts on occasion, but he was always so tired when he got home, and it took a lot to get him to open up about things like that.

———————————————————————————————————–

Tags List - Personal

Not A Ghost Nor A Demon (Larry) This Is What I Do I Spit On You (Larry’s IC Posts) Stripes Are Always In (Larry’s Closet) A Vampire’s Lair (Larry’s Stuff) I’ve Got A Notion (Larry’s Desires) Fake Fangs And Clamato Juice (Larry’s Aesthetic) The Vampire Lestat (Lestat Tag) Like Fog Lights In The Rain (Larry’s Music) Things Are Different When You’re Dead (Larry Musings) Here It’s December Every Day (Larry Headcanons)

Tags List - With X - Canon

We Are But Shepherding Wolves (Larry And Allison Mertz)

The Different Need Us As Well (Larry And Amanda Harrison)

Please No Grieving (Larry And Annie Barlett)

Blondes Have More Fun (Larry And Bebe Stevens)

I Don’t Know Him (Larry And Billy Harris)

Sister In Darkness (Larry And Bloodrayne)

Where Oh Where Has He Gone? (Larry And Bradley Biggle)

It’s The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life (Larry And Butters Stotch)

I Don’t Like Dirt (Larry And Christophe “The Mole” DeLorne)

He’s Cool Enough To Hang Out With Us (Larry And Clyde Donovan)

If He Had Wheels He’d Be A Wagon (Larry And Craig Tucker)

Party Till It’s 666 In The Morning (Larry And Damien Thorn)

Nothing Is Ever Perfect (Larry And David Harrison)

He Rode Cthulhu Like A Pony! (Larry And Eric Cartman)

A Sweet Kid (Larry And Filmore Anderson)

Sharp And Scathing With Shipping Included (Larry And Firkle Smith)

The More The Merrier (Larry And Flora)

Brothers In Vampirism (Larry And Gangsta Vamp)

It’s Not Right To Tell Someone They’re Wrong (Larry And Gary Harrison)

What’s Up Drunkie? (Larry And Gregory)

She Wears A Dress Like A Body Bag Every Day (Larry And Heidi Turner)

Fire Bad! (Larry And Henriette Biggle)

Under Our Wings You Could Flourish (Larry And Ike Broflovski)

Don’t Let The Losers Win (Larry And Jennifer Harrison)Could She Be One Of Us? (Larry And Jenny)

Humor Is The Lifeblood Of Society (Larry And Jimmy Valmer)

One Of Us (Larry And Karen McCormick)

Why Does He Hate Us So Much? (Larry And Kenny McCormick)

Help Yourself To Guns And Ammo (Larry And Kevin McCormick)

Millennials Against Canada (Larry And Kyle Broflovski)

Everyone Is Welcome (Larry And Leslie Meyers)

I Believe (Larry And Mark Harrison)

Anywhere But Scottsdale (Larry And Michael)

They Worry You With All The Talk Of How You’re Not Their Kind (Larry And Mike Makowski

A Little Extra Help (Larry And Mimsy)

Always Scheming (Larry And Nathan)

The Sun It Withers In Comparison (Larry And Nichole Daniels)

Ugh You Spit On Me Larry (Larry And Pete)

He’s Not Like The Others (Larry And Quaid)

Leader Of The Pack (Larry And Red Tucker)

We’re Cool Huh? (Larry And Ryan Ellis)

Not Everyone Is On Our Level (Larry And Sally Bands)

You Poor Guy (Larry And Scott Tenorman)

Dogs Are Life (Larry And Stan Marsh)

Fanastic Wounds (Larry And Timmy Burch)

Is He On The List? (Larry And Token Black)

Tally Marks (Larry And Trent Boyett)

Too Young To Drink Caffeine (Larry And Tweek Tweak)

Class President (Larry And Wendy Testaburger)

Tags List - With X - OC

For What It’s Worth (With Hershy) - @brokenxdelinquentsx

It Was An Honest Mistake (With Nikolai Robins) - @sub-nikolai

Tags List - With X - Crossover

Daddy Daddy Get Me Out Of Here I’m Underground (With Jareth)

A Little Crazy Is OK As Long As Nobody Says Any Dirty Words (With Jerome Valeska)

———————————————————————————————————–

Verses - In-World

Second Best Friend Ever (Larry’s Elementary Verse)

It didn’t take long for Larry to be swept up in Mike Makowski. Someone that was so confident and cool actually paying him attention was the biggest, nicest thing anyone had ever done for him. He would have followed Mike to the ends of the Earth and back, and usually helped retrieve him from Scottsdale, at least by tattling to his parents.

Growing Into Oneself (Larry’s Middle School Verse)

In middle school, being the vice president and treasurer of the Vampire Society became his life. He would make sure that everyone had their tickets for dances and things, that everyone was going to parties or zoo excursions. Mike’s birthdays became a big-ticket item and he did a lot of work with Mike’s stepdad to get the parties to be just right for his best friend.

Workaholic (Larry’s High School Verse)

In high school, Larry got a job as a clerk at the Photo Dojo. If he wasn’t doing that or school work, he was almost always with his friends doing something. If they weren’t together, he was planning things, or taking dictation from Mike. He spent as little time at home as he could leading up to his 18th birthday, and after it he tried to spend even less time there.

We Are The Fortunate All The Time (Larry’s College Verse)

The second Larry graduated high school, he was already out the door. The soonest he could get to his college life and away from his family, the better. Sure, he missed his friends, but they all talked on group chats and Discord, so things were still close. Living outside of Colorado was odd for him, however, hard to really put into place. Outside of his friend group, which apparently sheltered him a lot, he didn’t know how to function.

———————————————————————————————————–

AU Verses

I Can’t Wait To Show You My Love (Larry’s ABO AU)

Born a male Omega, Larry was always looked down upon by his mother, and his uncle saw him as a target. His grandparents took him in when he started to smell too much like his uncle, and have full custody of him. He lives with them in Middle Park, but still goes to school and hangs out with his friends in South Park.

His Only Fault Was His Trust (Demon!Larry AU)

Larry had never been much of a bad person. In fact, his only real flaw was that he trusted others so thoroughly that whatever they said or told him to do made him dangerous. A loyal friend, he became a majordomo to the royal family of hell when he died.

Creatures Of The Deep (Mer!Larry AU)

Larry is a Demasoni Cichlid, one of the least aggressive of his species. He tries to be a kind of vegetarian, but his species cannot survive without meat for long. He eats fish more than anything, though he goes into a frenzy on occasion. When he’s on land, he loses his ability to speak.

Apprenticed (Larry’s Repo! The Genetic Opera AU)

It started off innocently enough; Larry had been hoping to get some good, interesting work for his stories. Vampires were still a hit, even if it was more organ-themed now-a-days. But working as an apprentice to a Graverobber wasn’t always the easier thing to deal with, especially when squeamish.

Warn Your Warmth To Turn Away (Vampire!Larry AU)

It made sense, at some point, for Larry to obsess over vampires to the point of following ‘real’ ones. When he’d left South Park for college, he never once thought he’d find anyone that fit his aesthetic. Here he was, though, in a club called The Den, a bartender that didn’t realize just what he was getting himself into. Three days into his employment, he found out the dirty underbelly of the city operated there, and that most of them were not human. To keep him from running, he was slowly being poisoned, turned into a vampire that could still provide blood to others until the night of his full shift. Which just so happened to be his twenty-second birthday.

I Don’t Want To Be Team Jacob (Werewolf!Larry AU)

Larry had always loved dogs. He had enjoyed seeing wolves in the forest, thinking of them as vampiric familiars. The one time he stepped over his boundaries and pet an unfamiliar dog, though, turned out to be the worst night of his life. Trying to hide his new side from his friends and relatives was proving to be too hard, to boot.

———————————————————————————————————–

Shipping

None At This Time

———————————————————————————————————–

Open Starters

None At This Time

———————————————————————————————————–

Headcanon Posts

* ( positive personality traits!

Physical Traits Of Your Muse

Detailed Profile Tag

Bold Your Muse’s Aesthetic (Spooky Edition)

———————————————————————————————————–

Faceclaim - Gerhard Freidl

———————————————————————————————————–

Art By Me

———————————————————————————————————–

Pets

Lestat is Larry’s loyal White German Shepherd. The pair are mostly inseparable, and he will take Lestat with him to occasional Vampire Society meetings. Lestat protects Larry from his uncle, who is the only person that Lestat doesn’t like.

#Not A Ghost Nor A Demon (Larry)

11 notes · View notes

dingoes8myrp · 6 years

Text

No One Asked, But (Redux)

Waiting for my nose to decongest so I can (maybe) sleep. So, here are some answers no one asked for. I'm going to throw a smattering of fandoms in here.

what is your absolute favorite ship?

One Tree Hill: Nathan and Haley

In a show that wasn't always the most realistic (i.e. high school kids owning nightclubs...), Nathan and Haley felt like a very genuine relationship that became one of the healthiest in the show (after some work on both sides). I think Nathan makes Haley brave by believing in her and encouraging her when she's uncertain of herself. Haley makes Nathan reflect on himself, makes him empathize and rise above himself. They have their ups and downs, but these two always stick it out and they make each other better people.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow and Oz

These two are almost an OTP for me. I think Tara was a better fit for Willow during season 4 and onward, but I feel like Willow and Oz could also be an OTP under the right circumstances. They were so adorable and genuine with each other, accepting one another - flaws and all. They were very much ride or die. I could nerd about them for hours.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow and Tara

These two are a natural OTP for me. They bring out new sides of one another, and each is more confident with the other. They truly make each other better people. If it hadn't been for Tara's death I think these two would have always found a way back to each other, no matter what. Easily one of the healthiest relationships on the show.

what ship do you hate most?

Supernatural: Dean and Lisa

I didn't mind Lisa, but this relationship wasn't earned at all. They took a skeletal character, gave her no layers, and expected us to buy that this lady was Dean's happy ending. Cassie or Jo would have made much more sense.

The Walking Dead: Andrea and The Governor

I have a soft spot for Andrea. I hated her in the beginning, but she became one of my favorite characters. It bothered me when she became wrapped up in a man or when her plot became dependent on a man (it bothered me when they paired her with Shane too). She was such a powerhouse character and she grew so much by the time we got to the Governor. It drove me nuts that they backslid her and had her become overly invested in a guy she barely knew. Also, it literally killed her so there's that.

Angel: Connor and "Cordelia"

There was a lot I didn't like about this. First, that they ruined Cordelia by making her a villain, then had her pair up with Connor (who was kind of her surrogate son for a minute there). That pairing then also ruined Connor. Just, ick. So much wrong with it.

Lost: Jack and Kate

Least interesting ship in the show, and it was always the one that got shoved in my face. I didn't really have anything in particular I disliked about it, other than it was made so prominent when there were so many more interesting pairings we could have been focusing on more (i.e. Jack and Ana).

what was your first ship, and what fandom is it from?

Interview with the Vampire: Lestat and Louis

I was pretty young when I saw the movie (Maybe 9 or 10), and I always saw Lestat and Louis as a couple. This was reinforced when I eventually read the novel.

explain why do/don’t ship [pairing]

Angel: Angel and Cordelia

I wouldn't go so far as to say I'd never write them as a couple, but I like Angel and Cordelia so much as friends and colleagues. I just don't see a romantic thing there.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow and Kennedy

This one didn't at all feel earned. Kennedy felt like a rebound, but was treated like an endgame. I just didn't buy it. Kennedy reminded me of high school Cordelia, with her venomous, selfish streak and I didn't see that very prominent trait being attractive to Willow.

One Tree Hill: Lucas and Brooke

These two never made sense to me. Brooke seemed to only like Lucas because Peyton liked him, then she moved in on him knowing that. Not a great start. Then that led to the whole cheating Lucas and Peyton plot and it felt like the whole ship was created as a plot device to make things difficult for Lucas and Peyton.

what’s a ship you like that most people don’t?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy and Riley

This was just a healthy ship for a while, and I really liked seeing Buffy in a relationship that was stable and reliable where she didn't have to worry about the guy deciding to maim one of her friends for shits and giggles. I do wish we'd gotten more time to get to know Riley better as his own character before they paired them. He couldn't really stand on his own. I also think he would have been more interesting if he was just a normal guy trained in combat instead of that whole "Initiative drugs" thing.

Lost: Shannon and Boone

Okay, the thing I liked about these two was that they were basically Kathryn and Sebastian from Cruel Intentions stuck on an island together. Their dynamic had so many twists and kept me hooked. I wish they'd stuck around longer.

what's a ship you hate that most people like?

Friends: Ross and Rachel

I just think these two bring out the worst in each other. I don't think they could have ended up with anyone else because they always seemed to find their way back to each other, but it was such an unhealthy relationship. It makes me cringe.

what is the most underrated ship, in your opinion?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Xander and Cordelia

Normally I don't like it when two characters who can't stand each other end up together. But, I think they helped each other grow. Cordelia became less shallow, choosing Xander over her popularity, and became slightly warmer because of it. Xander became less judgmental and more humble. I think their relationship is an important cornerstone in both of their arcs.

Penny Dreadful: Vanessa and Dorian

These two were just ridiculously hot, for one. But also, Dorian found the darker parts of Vanessa fascinating. He accepted her and wanted to know more about her. Vanessa didn't have to hide who she was around him. I wish they'd done more with them, particularly in later episodes.

why do you think [pairing] is so popular?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy and Spike

Again, these two are hot. Also, Spike sees a side of Buffy no one else does, and he accepts her entirely. We also see a kinder side of Spike in his quiet, intimate moments with Buffy when he's comforting her or giving her advice. Spike also becomes a part of Buffy's family (which includes her friends). He forms a close bond with Dawn in particular. He makes an effort to be a part of her life.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy and Angel

This is a Romeo and Juliet level "forbidden love" story - a classic romance. Angel and Buffy are passionate. They're partners, working together and fighting alongside one another. They're equals. Angel will do anything to help Buffy or to make her happy, and she'd do the same for him. Neither of them parted because they wanted to. Angel wanted to give Buffy a chance at a normal life, and she had no choice but to accept that and try to move on. This left a perpetual "will they, won't they?" vibe for the rest of the series runs.

what’s your favorite canon moment of [pairing]?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy and Faith

My favorite moment for them - one of my favorite scenes in anything ever - is the coma dream at the end of season 3. I believe this reflects Buffy's feelings for Faith. The cat symbolises Faith and Buffy inquires about who's going to take care of "him." Faith corrects that it's a she. I think Buffy wanted to take care of Faith, and felt she'd failed to do that. Faith also gives Buffy everything she has in the dream, and Buffy is overwhelmed, saying she can't use all of it. Faith tells her to take what she needs. This is Buffy acknowledging that Faith gave all she was capable of giving to their friendship/relationship, and that Buffy couldn't accept all of it. Faith tells Buffy how to defeat the Mayor. I think Buffy hopes Faith will eventually come around and join her side of the fight again. I could go on and on about these two.

One Tree Hill: Clay and Quinn

This is morbid, but I loved the episode that was one big coma dream for these two. It was such a well done episode and they had kind of a perfect fantasy day inside this horrible moment.

Penny Dreadful: Vanessa and Ethan

The exorcism when Ethan will not give up, and he's terrified, but he keeps going. He's not leaving that room alive until Vanessa is back. Such a powerful scene.

One Tree Hill: Lucas and Peyton

The school shooting episode when Lucas carries Peyton out of the school. They're not even a couple at this point, but it's such a vulnerable moment for both of them in the midst of one of the show's most raw, powerful episodes.

favorite AU ideas for [pairing]?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy and Oz

I'm not sure where this would fit, but I always wondered how these two would have fared.

have you ever written fanfiction/drawn fanart of [pairing]? would you consider it?

I wrote a fanfic ages ago that took place between Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat where Lestat and Louis reunited.

I also wrote a fanfic for David and Michael from The Lost Boys.

I don't typically write for a pairing. I kind of start with a plot and see where it goes. But I'm trying to write for a few pairings. If anything comes out decent I'll post it up.

#angel the series #buffy the vampire slayer #one tree hill #penny dreadful #lost #the lost boys #the vampire chronicles #the walking dead #supernatural

5 notes · View notes

keanuital · 7 years

Link

As a filmmaker, you can destroy entire cities with relative impunity and gleefully obliterate whole civilizations with malicious delight without losing an audience’s sympathy. But movies must tread lightly when animals are involved, because there are few things more likely to enrage audiences than the unnecessary death of an animal, particularly a dog. Dogs are borderline sacred in American society, and our treatment of onscreen mutts reflects that.

Thankfully, the 2014 instant cult classic John Wick, directed by former stuntmen Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, has the most necessary and meaningful death of a cinematic canine since Old Yeller, and one nearly as mourned. The dog is the key to John Wick’s magic. Without it, the movie is merely an extraordinarily well-made, skillfully directed and performed action neo-noir starring Keanu Reeves. That’s not a bad place to start, but the dog’s death elevates John Wick to the level of lurid pop tragedy. It transforms a movie for action-film buffs into a movie for anyone likely to be deeply affected by the death of an adorable dog. That is to say, everyone.

I usually find the revenge genre morally abhorrent and emotionally empty, but when vengeance is exacted on behalf of a four-legged charmer instead of a person, it changes everything. In that case, the very universe itself howls for justice, and in John Wick, the title character is the instrument of its fury.

The film opens with the death (by natural causes) of John Wick’s wife (Bridget Moynahan), a woman good and decent enough to inspire her adoring husband to abandon his life of violence and criminality, even though he is to killing people what Meryl Streep is to acting: the gold standard by which all others are judged. A lesser film would have dragged out the wife’s death, but John Wick deals with her as quickly, smoothly, and efficiently as it does everything else.

HE’S NO MERE KILLER FOR HIRE. HE’S MORE LIKE A CONTEMPORARY FOLK HERO.

Before her light is permanently extinguished, though, she arranges to have a puppy named Daisy shipped to her husband’s home to help him deal with his impending grief. John doesn’t get to spend a whole lot of time with the dog, but he doesn’t need to. Daisy immediately makes an indelible impression and worms her way into the hearts and minds of everyone in the audience. Seldom has a badass action movie been so defined by the adorableness of one of its principals. With the exception of the Death Wish series, of course.

John Wick himself is a familiar action-movie archetype: a man of violence who has figured out a way to leave his past behind and enjoy the simple pleasures of an honest, law-abiding existence. Then one day, Iosef Tarasov (Alfie Allen), the degenerate son of Russian mob kingpin Viggo Tarasov (Michael Nyqvist), attempts to buy John’s 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 from him at a gas station. Wick politely declines the offer, but Iosef is used to having his way, so he and his men follow John home, where they murder his dog and steal his car. This makes John Wick angry. And you wouldn’t like John Wick when he’s angry. Because first he gets angry, and then he starts murdering people. And once he starts, he doesn’t stop until his thirst for vengeance has been sated.

Wick now has something to live for, and more importantly, something to kill for. From that point on, Viggo and John are on a collision course only one of them will survive, if anyone survives at all. In one of the film’s few bits of exposition, Viggo explains that John’s nickname was “The Boogeyman,” but even that undersells his badassery, because, as Viggo clarifies, John Wick is not the boogeyman so much as he’s the one you send to kill the boogeyman. He’s no mere killer for hire. He’s more like a contemporary folk hero.

In Viggo, John Wick boasts a villain worthy of its anti-hero. Nyqvist plays the mob boss as an inveterate philosopher who regards his life and death with a wry sense of world-weary resignation. His respect for Wick borders on awe, and he seems to know, deep down, that it is his existential destiny to be killed by him. He seems resigned to his fate.

But something deeper also seems to be at work. There’s a sense that Viggo wishes John Wick were his son, and he’s come to terms with his death — and the death of his own son — as an appropriate price to pay to the universe for the unforgivable, unpardonable crime of killing Wick’s dog and stealing his car. To put it in Network terms, when snot-nosed Iosef and his boys killed Wick’s dog, they meddled with the primal forces of nature, and Wick quite simply is not having it.

THE GENIUS OF JOHN WICK LIES IN ITS TOUGH-GUY MINIMALISM.

Derek Kolstad’s crackerjack screenplay is as notable for all of the things that aren’t said as it is for the few things that are. It boldly and brazenly eschews exposition — the elaborate backstories and speeches and arbitrary love interest and all of the other crap that makes action movies so forgettable and interchangeable — so that it can focus monomaniacally on all the things that make action movies awesome.

The film allows John Wick to remain a mystery throughout and surrounds him with characters who are every bit as enigmatic and tantalizingly unknowable as him. We learn, for example, almost nothing about the underworld figures played by the likes of heavyweights Willem Dafoe and Ian McShane, but the way they treat each other says more about them and the dark, ominous, honor-bound world they inhabit than reams of dialogue ever could. Because John Wick leaves so much unsaid, we don’t have any choice but to fill in the blanks.

These weary survivors flesh out the film’s vision of a criminal world that functions as an alternate universe that exists within our own world, complete with an elaborate code of ethics that, like everything else in the film, is never explicitly spelled out. This shadow world has gods and demons and legends of their own, and John Wick qualifies as all three. He’s a righteous angel of vengeance.

The genius of John Wick — and I do not use that word lightly — lies in its tough-guy minimalism, in the way it strips the revenge melodrama down to its raw, potent core. That minimalism extends to the dialogue. The more Keanu Reeves says here, the less badass he seems. Thankfully he says almost nothing, so when he does speak it’s more forceful. Likewise, we don’t need to hear about what a force of nature John Wick is because it’s apparent in every punch, every kick, and every bad guy murdered; the film is admirably committed to showing rather than telling.

Just about the only time John Wick says more than is absolutely necessary is when he’s captured by Viggo and explains the urgency and necessity of his particular path. He describes what Daisy meant to him, how she gave him his first taste of hope in ages, only to have that hope extinguished by a bullet. In John Wick, the criminal world is no place for tourists: either you’re in the life 100 percent or you’re out completely.

John murders a small nation’s worth of glowering Russians over the course of the movie, so he’s not exactly tip-toeing shyly back into his old ways. Yet it isn’t until John is captured by Viggo and roped to a chair, when he tells him and his armed thugs, “People keep asking if I’m back and I haven’t really had an answer. But now, yeah, I’M THINKING I’M BACK!” that his bloody comeback becomes official.

Reeves delivers those instantly iconic lines with ragged breath and visceral, overpowering rage. Like Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mission Impossible 3, he’s a deadly threat to everyone around him even when bound and captured by his enemies.

THERE’S A ZEN CALM TO JOHN WICK THAT COMES AS MUCH FROM THE ACTOR AS THE SCRIPT.

But there’s a Zen calm to John Wick that comes as much from the actor as the script. Reeves possesses a sweetness and vulnerability that, in the past, has worked against his efforts to come across as tough and imposing. But that likability, as well as his androgynous good looks, makes it easy to buy the title character as a man who will never recover from the personal losses he’s suffered, no matter how many Russians he murders. Just as importantly, at this stage in his career, Reeves has the presence and physical chops to pull off playing this virtuoso of bloodshed, this Mozart of righteous mass murder. Style-wise, John Wick is a marvel of clean, unadorned efficiency. The film’s alternately black-grey and lurid neon color scheme and visceral brutality suggest Only God Forgives if Nicolas Winding-Refn’s film was intent on entertaining audiences rather than repulsing them.

The world of John Wick is full of mystery and empty spaces, so while the film is perfect in its own right, its universe begs to be expanded with sequels and a TV spin-off and graphic novels and comic books and novelizations. Accordingly, the sequel did even better with critics and audiences than the original film, and it seems like there’s an awful lot that can still be done with the character, as evidenced by plans for a John Wick TV series.

But why stop there? If any blood-splattered action movie franchise invited an officially licensed line of dog toys and bulletproof puppy vests, it’s this one. Hell, if Billy Jack got four movies, then John Wick deserves at least eight.

John Wick transformed Keanu Reeves (who had a little bit of success in action via the popular Matrix films) from a wannabe badass to the real thing. John Wick is the hero we need, and a hero for our times, even if we have done little, if anything, to deserve him.

#keanu reeves #john wick

50 notes · View notes

mandibierly · 7 years

Text

'Broadchurch' series finale: Chris Chibnall and David Tennant on the perfect parting shot

Miller (Olivia Colman) and Hardy (David Tennant) in the final scene of ‘Broadchurch’ (Photo: BBC America)

The finale of Broadchurch‘s final season brought viewers an unexpected conclusion to the investigation of Trish Winterman’s rape, a sad but loving end to the marriage of Mark and Beth Latimer, and in closing, the perfect encapsulation of Hardy and Miller’s relationship. To break down the episode, Yahoo TV spoke separately with creator Chris Chibnall and star David Tennant.

Leo (Chris Mason) calls out Trish’s name as Michael (Deon Lee-Williams) is still clueless (Photo: BBC America)

The case

The hour focused on three key suspects: Ed Burnett, who finally admitted that he’d been sleeping near Trish’s home each night because he “failed her” (once news broke of her assault, he realized that was what he’d overheard from across the lake, not drunken sex as he’d assumed); cabbie Clive Lucas, whose DNA was on the sock used to gag Trish and whose account of his whereabouts that evening kept changing; and “swaggery little s**t” Leo Humphries, who, thanks to some great detective work by Miller, was revealed as the person who planted the bag of bloody twine on Ed’s property.

The big twist came when phone records revealed that Clive’s stepson, 16-year-old Michael, had phoned Leo the night Clive was arrested — and that all three of their phones were in the same location on the night of Cath’s party (because Clive had stumbled upon them walking away from Axehampton and gave them a ride).

What we saw unfold in flashback: After watching Clive raise a hand to Michael while playing soccer (remember Leo is in charge of the uniforms, which explains why he’d have Clive’s socks), Leo — whose difficult relationship with his own father had been established — took Michael under his wing. He gave him porn. He got him drunk and took him to the cemetery to lose his virginity to Leo’s girlfriend (“I’m lettin’ you borrow her. … She does what she’s told. … It’s only sex,” Leo said).

Michael thought they were just going to crash Cath’s party that night, but Leo came prepared with his “party kit.” When Leo knocked Trish unconscious from behind with the cricket bat, Michael was horrified, but he still helped Leo move her and watched him tie her hands behind her back and gag her. Leo said he was doing this for Michael: “You’ve had a young one, now try something else. … She’s ready.” Michael knew it was wrong, but after Leo smacked him when he said so, Michael succumbed: “Go on, Michael, be a man,” Leo insisted. He filmed the assault on his phone. Leo filmed all four of his rapes, one a year when he came home from university.

Leo (Chris Mason) explains how he groomed Michael (Photo: BBC America)

“It became very clear, the more we storylined and the more I wrote, that this is a story about the next generation,” Chibnall says. “The issues of the proliferation of technology, of porn, of the attitudes to women that seem to have taken a step back in the last 20 years, the sexualization of society — all issues that are swirling around and were things I wanted to write about seemed to come to a kind of a fusion in the character of Leo. The sense of entitlement that that character has. He’s talking about a sense of loneliness, a kind of pointlessness. Those things all ganged together into that character very, very early on. I think if you re-watch all eight episodes, thematically and narratively and character-wise all roads are always leading to Leo.”

Miller (Olivia Colman) can’t believe what she’s hearing come out of Leo’s mouth (Photo: BBC America)

The statements Leo made in his confession were chilling: “They’d all had sex before. Why does one more time make a difference?” (“They did not get the choice. Their bodies are not yours,” Miller told him.)

“That scene absolutely draws from real life — not from one person’s assault, but from a lot of research our team did across a lot of areas,” Chibnall says.

Hardy: “He is not what men are. He’s an aberration.” Miller: “I hope so.” (Photo: BBC America)

In the end, Clive tried to get Hardy and Miller to say he did it instead of Michael, because he knows he should have been there more for him. Miller knew that Michael was giving porn to her son Tom, and Hardy knew that Michael was one of the boys harassing his daughter, Daisy. Is one of the season’s messages the importance of parents being present in their children’s lives? “I think that the whole show is about community, and responsibility, and family, and the trickle down of that,” Chibnall says. “It resonates with Mark Latimer’s story, it resonates with Hardy’s story, it resonates with Ellie’s story. It’s a show about how we’re all connected, and we all have to help each other through the difficult things in life. All three [seasons] with these crimes, it shows the tragedy of them — not just for the victims, but the terrible ripple effect.”

Mark Latimer (Andrew Buchan) accepts that his marriage is over (Photo: BBC America)

Mark and Beth’s marriage

Neither Beth nor Mark was able to sleep when they returned home after his suicide attempt. Their conversation about their future — she needs to move on, and he needs to sort himself out somewhere where the memories don’t surround him — was calm and rational. “I love you,” she said. “Yeah, I love you, too,” he answered.

“Again, so much of this is based on research of real-life cases, and the parents of murdered children very rarely stay together is the terrible tragedy of it,” Chibnall says. “I wanted to dramatize the slow burn of that, and to show two people who were still in love but couldn’t be together because of the differing ways that grief has affected them and they’ve dealt with it. So that was why, particularly in this episode, we sort of stopped the whole investigation to have this two-hander between Andy Buchan and Jodie Whitaker. I always knew what that scene was, and I always knew that they would absolutely knock it out of the park. That was just utterly wonderful, and heartbreaking, and warm, and emotional. David and Olivia [Colman] rightly get a lot of praise for their amazing work in the series, but Andy and Jodie have always been equally the heartbeat of Broadchurch, and remained so until the very final images.”

No, Miller (Olivia Colman) and Hardy (David Tennant) will not be going to the pub (Photo: BBC America)

Hardy and Miller’s final scene

Our last moment with Hardy and Miller found them sitting on a bench, in front of the series’ iconic cliffs, decompressing after a job well done. “I could do with a drink. Do you want one? We could go to the pub. We’ve never been to the pub,” Miller said. Pause for Hardy to consider it. “No,” he replied.

“I wanted there to be a laugh in there. That felt very important after a very dark episode, and I wanted it to end with hope,” Chibnall says. “But also, I wanted it to end with everything you love about Hardy and Ellie’s relationship still in play. So there was the refusal to go to the pub, which harks back to his reluctance to come to dinner in the first series in that amazing scene where she asks him and he’s really stubborn and rude about it.”

So instead of a pint, we got this final exchange.

Hardy: I should get back to Daisy.

Miller: I should get back to my boys… So you and Daisy then, you’re gonna stay, properly now? You don’t hate it that much?

Hardy: I’ll see you tomorrow, Miller.

Miller: Fine. See you tomorrow.

And they walked away.

Chibnall says he knew that would be the final line of the series before he even sat down to begin writing Season 3. “I absolutely had the final image and that final line in my head, and that sense of somewhere out there on that coast road, in that car, those two are still out there bickering, and talking about work, and driving into the sunset,” he says.

Tennant more than approved. “I think the journey that Miller and Hardy go on is so beautifully summed up in that final scene,” he says. “They’re both broken people, really. They’re people who don’t have anyone other than each other. They’re sort of the closest thing to best friends that the other one has. They’re both kind of disconnected from their families, and they’ve been through some terrible, bruising experiences. They feel like slightly incomplete human beings. They found each other in this world, and yet even then they can’t quite connect.”

That moment would also seem to definitively dash the hopes of those fans who ship the detectives. “I don’t think anyone on the show has ever conceived that Hardy and Miller would get together. It’s just not who they are. It’s not what they do,” Tennant says. “They’re sort of diametrically opposed human beings, and yet, at the same time, they become mutually dependent on each other. I think that’s why that relationship works. I think if you started having some sort of Moonlighting-style will-we/won’t-we, you break the series immediately. It’s funny — it is brought up in interviews now and again. You sort of go, ‘What? Eh? How? Have you seen the show?'”

For the record, Tennant doesn’t believe Hardy continued to see the woman he met online in episode 4: “We received the scripts just before we shot them, so we filmed that date scene and I had no idea if it would be followed up. I did wonder, ‘Is this Chris setting Hardy up for a happy ending?'” he says. “But it never transpires, and I think it would be wrong, actually, if we saw Hardy walking off into the sunset hand-in-hand with anyone. I think there’s an inevitable misfire when Hardy tries to get his personal life on track.”

What does Tennant picture as Hardy’s future? “In the short term, he’ll just come to work the next day, and he’ll probably go back to dealing with small-town crimes that will infuriate him and make him annoyed that he’s not in some bustling metropolis. Although on one level, of course, he’ll be delighted and relieved because it means that there aren’t any more terrible events going on in this town that’s had its fair share,” he says. “I think he’ll settle back into a life of complaining about his life, probably. And rolling his eyes at the small-town mundanities of it all. But as we find out in this series, he’s clearly decided that this is where he’s meant to be and that that’s where he’s going to stay. Unless something changes. I guess much will [depend on] Daisy and where she goes and what her life becomes, because I think that’s his final salvation, really — his daughter. And probably his Achilles’ heel as well.”

yahoo

That brings us to our final question: Could we ever see Hardy and Miller reunite again on screen? Chibnall is, of course, taking over showrunner duties next season on Doctor Who (which will feature Whittaker as the 13th Doctor), and Tennant and Colman are never not in demand. “One should never say never to anything because when you do, it’ll only bite you in the bum. But there are certainly no plans. That’s not anything we’ve considered or imagined,” Tennant says. “I think you’d have to be so careful to do something like this. It’s been a delicate modulation to make sure that Broadchurch is about the community as much as it’s about the whodunit or the thriller aspects of it. I think you have to make sure that you own the voracity of what that community would be. If you keep going back and you keep telling stories about more terrible events that happen in this small town, it just becomes implausible quite quickly.”

Now it’s Chibnall’s turn to concur. “I said this was gonna be the end because I don’t have another story in that world. We’ve told one story of a murder, one story of a trial, one story of a sexual assault — I wouldn’t want to go back and repeat things,” he says. “So it’s difficult to think of what other story to tell. But if, years in the future, I’m walking down the street and one pops into my head, I’ll be sure to get on the phone to David and Olivia straight away.”

In the meantime, Chibnall wants to leave fans with these words: “Thank you to everybody who has watched this show from the start to the finish. To see it go around the world this way, and for people to take it to their hearts, has been an incredibly emotional, meaningful experience for all of the Broadchurch family. And it really did become a family. So it’s been wonderful.”

Read more from Yahoo TV: • ‘Broadchurch’ S3, E7: Creator on Mark’s fate, Hardy’s tirade, Trish taking back the night • ‘Broadchurch’ Season 3, Episode 6: Creator Chris Chibnall on Mark’s Big Moment • ‘Broadchurch’ Season 3, Episode 5: Creator Chris Chibnall on Cath’s Chilling Line • ‘Broadchurch’ Season 3, Episode 4: Creator Chris Chibnall, David Tennant on Hardy’s Date • ‘Broadchurch’ Season 3, Episode 3: Creator on ‘Seeing Hardy in a New Light’ • ‘Broadchurch’ Season 3 Episode 2: Creator on Season 3’s Growing List of Suspects • ‘Broadchurch’ Season 3 Premiere Postmortem: Creator Chris Chibnall on the Final Case • ‘Broadchurch’ Final Season: David Tennant Previews Hardy and Miller’s Slight Role Reversal

#news #_revsp:wp.yahoo.tv.us #_uuid:04e786ad-f2c3-34ab-9d85-358fedfc74e6 #bbc america #broadchurch #_author:Mandi Bierly #olivia colman #david tennant #_lmsid:a0Vd000000AE7lXEAT

6 notes · View notes

ourtubahero-blog · 9 months

Text

😬

54 notes · View notes

ingravinoveritas · 7 months

Note

maybe I'm stupid, but could you explain what "i always wanted anthony" means? Is it a refference of some kind? Innuedno?

To me it means exactly what it says, but english isn't my 1st language...🤷🏻‍♂️

Hi there! You are not stupid at all, so please don't even think such a thing.

So for those who haven't seen it, this is referring to Michael's response to a tweet from this morning. Let's get the visual up first thing:

The screenshot in the OP is cut off because of Twitter's cropping, but the trivia question being asked was, "Who plays Crowley in Good Omens?" and there were four possible answer choices given, one of which was "Anthony."

It's interesting that you've asked me what this means, because already I've seen reference on Twitter to "creepy and delusional Michael/David shippers" reading too much into what Michael meant, despite the fact that this an incredibly ambiguous statement, and in all likelihood, Michael intended it to be that way.

But what did Michael mean, exactly? We know that "Anthony" is Crowley's human name in GO, so it seems to be an obvious reference to that. A lot of people in the comments appeared to think the same, as I saw numerous comments to the effect of, "Michael, did Aziraphale possess you and make you write this" and such. Yet when we look back at last week's Thin Dark Duke comment, it's equally as ambiguous, with Michael saying "it was me" in regard to the touching of Crowley/David's chest.

Did he mean it was him touching David, or Aziraphale touching Crowley? I still don't think we know for sure. Is "I always wanted Anthony" meant to refer to Aziraphale, or is it Michael referring to David? Both of these statements very acrobatically straddle that line between fiction and reality, character and actor, and Michael being who he is, I'm betting that is by design and extremely deliberate.

My personal interpretation (as "creepy" and "delusional" as some might see it, though I really don't give a damn what anyone thinks) is that this is another in a (very long line) of little ways Michael is telling us he wants/loves David. David in any iteration, any form--whether he's Crowley, Anthony, or just his lovely, gorgeous self. I don't think it's Michael speaking as Aziraphale because Michael doesn't need to speak as Aziraphale to make what he feels plain. If anything, this seems more like a continuation of what he has already been saying and feeling for the last four years.

So yes, those are my thoughts on "I always wanted Anthony." I will never tell anyone that their interpretation is incorrect, so it rather grates my cheese to have anti-RPF folks telling me I'm reading too much into it, especially when they turn around and do the same thing with the characters. We can each think what we want to think, and that's all that really matters. Whatever Michael means--and whether he was actually just trying to rile up the fandom yet again--we may never know for sure. I hope this helps to answer your question, though. Thanks for writing in! x

#electronic-chocolate #reply post #michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #i think Michael has been telling us exactly who he is for a long time now #no way he doesn't know exactly what he is doing #Michael ships himself with David more than anyone else ever could #in and out of character #truth disguised as a joke #subtext that is rapidly becoming a text #thoughts #discourse

45 notes · View notes

lacommunarde · 7 years

Text

Snart and Scofield to the Company Came - Chapter 7: Utah

Chapter 1: A Case of Mistaken Identities

Chapter 2: STAR Labs

Chapter 3: What is Leonard Snart?

Chapter 4: Safety in Central City

Chapter 5: Meetings and Decisions

Chapter 6: Licence Plate Game

Chapter 7: Utah

Fandom: The Flash, Prison Break, Arrow (sort of) Rating: Mature Warnings: Prison Break typical level of violence, (sort of major) character death, Torture, Surgery, Cancer, Child Abuse, Past Child Abuse,

Notes: Spoilers through season 4 of Prison Break, The events of the Flash happen ten years earlier: Len Mick and Lisa are ten years younger but everyone else is canon age, Len is 33, Michael is 28/29 when the fic starts, Linc is 32/33, Mick is 35. Snart Family Feels, Scofield and Burrows Family Feels,

Relationships: Mick Rory/Leonard Snart, Leonard Snart & Lisa Snart, Lincoln Burrows & Michael Scofield, Michael Scofield/Sara Tancredi, Maricruz Delgado/Fernando Sucre, Michael Scofield & Leonard Snart, Michael Scofield & Christina Scofield, Leonard Snart & Christina Scofield, Mick Rory & Lincoln Burrows,

Characters: Leonard Snart, Michael Scofield, Mick Rory, Lincoln Burrows, Lisa Snart, Cisco Ramon, Barry Allen, Caitlin Snow, Sara Tancredi, Fernando Sucre, LJ Burrows, Joe West, Iris West, Maricruz Delgado, Felicity Smoak, Alex Mahone, Paul Kellerman, Bill Kim, Christina Scofield, General Krantz, Aldo Burrows, Theodore “T-Bag” Bagwell, Wally West, Lewis Snart, Brad Bellick, Oliver Queen, Axel Walker,

Summary: When Michael Scofield and Lincoln Burrows swing by Central City to get a potential plan B for getting to Panama (in case they need it), they are mistaken for Leonard Snart and Mick Rory. Leonard Snart, who is laying low (not in Central City) is mistaken for Scofield. Once their identities are straightened out, Len, Mick and Lisa and the Flash team decide they are going to help the brothers (and Sucre, Sara Tancredi, and LJ) find out why the Company wants them, and the Rogues call in a few favors.

Once they were in town, Lisa said, “Alright, Michael. I got us here. You need to tell me where we’re headed.”

“The city municipal building should have the maps.”

Lisa pointed. “That one there?”

Michael nodded. “That one there.”

Lisa raised an eyebrow at him. “Do you know where it is?”

Michael tipped his head. “The Double K Ranch.”

“Linc.” She dug around in the bag she had been storing the license plates in, pulled out a hat and handed it to Linc. “Stay in the truck. Anyone asks, I’m making a delivery and we should be out of their way momentarily.” She turned to Michael, still holding the bag. “Alright, Michael. Lead the way.”

They got out of the truck and walked into the municipal building. The woman behind the counter looked up. Lisa handed Michael her bag and began pulling her hair up. Michael was watching her with a frown. The woman behind the counter cleared her throat. “May I help you?”

“Yes, we’re here to do a research project. Would you happen to know where the Double K Ranch is?”

Outside, Linc saw a familiar person crossing the street, one who had escaped with the brothers and the one of them he had most hoped never to see again. He climbed out of the truck and shouted after the man, “You!”

The man looked up. Panic showed on his face as he registered Linc and then started running. Linc overtook him before he reached the other side and slammed him against a car. “What are you doing here?” Linc demanded.

“Wait, wait, wait. I can explain,” T-bag started. Linc pulled his arms further behind his back. “Now listen here, Linc the Sink. I think if I start yelling, you got a lot more to lose than I do. Correct me if I’m wrong.”

A call in Michael’s voice came up of, “Shit.” It sounded panicked. Linc realized they must have found the empty truck. “Linc!” that sounded even more panicked. He wondered how quickly Michael would come up with a completely unnecessary plan if he thought Linc had been captured and decided not to chance it.

“Over here!” Linc yelled. Michael saw him and ran across the street, Lisa tailing closely behind.

“Where’s the map, Bagwell?” Michael demanded.

“Give us the map, T-bag!” Linc shoved him against the car again.

“I would give to you, Pretty, but I don’t have it. And ooh, who is that beautiful young thing you’re…?”

Lisa pulled a gun out of the bag and aimed it at T-bag’s head. “I’ve met your type before. I’ve had the pleasure of killing your type before. Give me one excuse, one, and I will wipe that slimy smirk off your face. Now where’s the map?”

“Yes, ma’am. I was just making small talk with Lincoln and Michael-.”

Lisa pulled the trigger. Out of her gun came a gold stream that hit T-bag’s bad wrist. He screamed. Linc backed up, not quite having thought she would pulled the trigger. Michael jumped, too, until he saw what had fired from the gun, and then he turned to Lisa to gape at her.

T-bag shouted, “You shot me, you bitch!”

“Yeah, it wasn’t anything vital. Now do you want to see your entire body covered in gold?”

“You’re even more nuts than Linc here was when he got his nickname.” Lisa revved her gun again. “I’ll get the map! I’ll get the map!” T-bag shouted. “Tweener has it.”

“Why would David be here?” Michael asked.

“Uh, Tweener and I met up in town and he is also working with me.”

“Really? Why? I thought he would have put as much distance between himself and your rapist ass as possible.” Linc commented.

“We ran into each other in town. He was apparently also on his way to the ranch.”

Linc and Michael met eyes, both wondering who else was on their way to the money and whether others would be able to find it.

“Where is he?” Michael said.

“In the garden store on Main Street.”

“Okay, march,” Linc said. T-bag took a look at Linc, a glance at Lisa, started leading the way.

Michael fell back to Lisa. “May I see your gun?”

Lisa raised her eyebrows, but flipped the gun around and offered it butt first to Michael. “Before you get any ideas, I’m giving you the same warning I gave to my brother: disassemble it, and I shoot you.”

Michael nodded. “I wouldn’t dream of it.” He took the gun and examined it. “Does it actually fire gold?”

Lisa shook her head. “Fake gold. Cisco designed it for me with an easily refillable cartridge. And gold, while it would be sweet, is not easily refillable.”

Michael smiled. “Very practical.”

“Or so he said. I think he likes to forget that I’m a Snart sometimes, and am involved with my brother’s heists. I could refill it with gold a lot easier than he likes.”

Michael laughed. “Would you ever think of doing anything else?”

Lisa turned to him and scoffed. “Lenny put me through school and through figure skating training and competitions to make sure I could do as I like. Like Linc did for you, it sounds like.”

Michael tipped his head. “Yes. Although he told me it was my half of the insurance money when he gave it to me.”

“Insurance money?”

Michael sighed. “Our mother died when I was eleven and Linc was fifteen. Linc said she had taken out life insurance. It turned out she hadn’t.”

Lisa bowed her head.

Michael decided to change the subject. “What did you go to school to be?”

Lisa shrugged. “Mechanical engineer.”

Michael laughed. “Really?”

Lisa nodded. “Mmmhmm. Recently graduated too.”

“Tweener!” they heard T-bag yell.

“Hey, let me know if you need any help with him.” Lisa nodded at T-bag. “I’ve done a few jobs with people like that. They aren’t kidding around.”

“I’ll keep that in mind. Thank you.”

They heard a yell come from inside the garden shop. It sounded like Tweener.

“Linc,” Michael said, eying the store.

Lisa stepped forward. “I’m going too.” She turned to Linc. “Play along if you know what’s good for you.”

Michael nodded.

“You stay out here.” Linc pointed at T-bag.

When they entered the store, Lisa and Linc stopped at the sight of Tweener in a headlock. Lisa shifted postures. “Oh good God, David. What have you gotten yourself involved in now?”

“Wha…?” The guy holding Tweener in a headlock turned and released him. Tweener put as much distance between himself and the guy as possible.

Lisa turned to him and began lecturing. “David, what have you done now?”

“Who…?”

Linc moved close and patted him on the back. “Play along,” he whispered.

“Ok,” Tweener returned.

“Do you know this man, ma’am?” the guy said.

“Yeah. He’s my cousin, from out of state. Son of a gun only just found out he’s got relatives on this side of his family, so he was shipped out here for a summer of hard work. Wasn’t that what your ma said?”

The store owner narrowed his eyes. “He said he was staying with grandpa.”

“On his grandpa’s ranch. Out of town a ways. Granddaddy recently fell ill. Bet he didn’t know the name, did ya?”

The man licked his lips, glancing at Linc as though considering going for his gun. “And who’s he?” He nodded at Linc.

“This?” Lisa nodded at him as well. “This is my husband. We been married a year in August. Trying for a little one, aren’t we, sweetie?” She took his hand and laced her fingers together with his. He let her, but gave the man a momentary expression of being trapped.

The suspicion was gone from his face as he grinned at them both. “Congratulations.” Linc had to hand it to Lisa: she knew how to tell a story.

“Thank you.” Linc shook his hand with his free one.

“We run a landscaping company, and David here forgot to bring the shovels. Would you happen to have any?”

He laughed. “What kind of idiot forgets the shovels?”

Lisa rolled her eyes and pointed her thumb at Tweener. “My cousin.”

“Right this way, ma’am.”

Lisa came back with the shovels and told Linc to get out money to pay for them. “And I don’t suppose you’d know anything about the old Double K ranch?”

The man made a face. “Why do you want to know about that?”

“Gramps said the place we was going used to be the Double K, actually with an expression similar to the one you got on your face now.”

“Used to be Karl Kokosing’s ranch,” the man grimaced.

“Used to be?” Linc asked.

“Now it’s a development. Pop up housing.”

“Shit,” Linc swore under his breath.

“Language, honey,” Lisa said.

“We was told it was the house by where the silo used to be. Your gramps.” He rolled his eyes.

“I can help you out with that.” He pulled out a map. “Here’s the new map.”

Lisa took it. “Thank you. And do you know where the silo used to be?”

“I think I got an old map in the back.”

“I’m gonna send them on to get the truck. Mick, you and David go get the truck. Meet me out front.”

They left. Outside, T-bag was glaring at Michael from where he was sitting on the bench. Michael had Lisa’s gun trained on him and was holding a piece of paper. “Bad news, Michael. The Double K ranch has been replaced by a new development.”

“That is bad. I think I can figure out where it is from this map though.”

Linc glared at T-bag. “Pretty there tried to shoot me,” T-bag protested.

“I’m gonna shoot you if you don’t shut up,” Linc commented.

“Yes, sir,” T-bag said.

“I shot the ground next to him,” Michael said, nodding at a patch of gold on the ground.

“Lisa’s inside getting an old map to line up against the new map.”

“That will be helpful.”

“I’m gonna get the truck. Tweener’s coming with me.”

Michael nodded.

“Hi guys,” Tweener greeted.

“David,” Michael said.

“I don’t see why you two trust him more than me,” T-bag protested. “Out of all of us, only one of us has proved disloyal.”

“Did I say you could talk?” Linc said.

“Out of all of us, only one of us has killed and raped multiple people,” Michael said. He turned to Linc. “Lisa has a point. Go get the truck. I’ll wait here with Bagwell.”

Linc and Tweener went to go get the truck. Lisa came out a few minutes later. “Found out approximately where the silo is.”

When they were all in the truck again, they drove to where the ranch used to be, turning up the road for the development and stopping. Lisa and Michael surveyed the new map and the old map. “Do you know exactly which house it is?”

She shook her head.

Michael stared out at the development.

“How are we gonna find it, Michael?” Linc asked.

“The trees. All of them are new except those two. And that one’s in the right place. It should be under that garage.”

Lisa nodded. “What’s your plan for getting in?”

“Let’s see if there’s anybody there,” Michael said.

“And if there is?”

Michael paused, thinking.

Lisa sighed. “Have any of you actually done any jobs before?”

Linc shrugged. Michael did too. Tweener approached, probably aiming to say something smooth, cut off with Lisa’s hand in his face. He stopped. She pointed at Linc and Michael. “You, I trust. You, well let’s put it this way, do you have a story?”

Michael nodded. “We could do construction crew.”

She inclined her head. “Good. Then you need to use it throughout.”

“So I’ve gathered.”

“Great, let’s drive the truck over. Construction crew it is.”

A woman came out of the house then, leaned over to get the paper, and went back in.

“Well, there is a woman in the house. Any smart plans for how to get in?”

“We need to shut off her electricity,” Linc suggested.

“You know how to do that?” Michael asked.

“Yep. Come on.” He led them to an electric box and popped in open then unscrewed a cable from it.

Michael stared at his brother. “Where’d you learn about electricity?”

“We use to steal copper wires. Sell them on the docks. When you were at school, of course.”

The sounds of the tv in the house died.

“So Linc has pulled jobs before,” Lisa observed.

“Yeah, just low key stuff though.”

“Who are you, hot stuff?” Tweener asked.

Linc gaped at him. T-bag raised an eyebrow. Michael just turned to Lisa to watch.

Lisa looked him up and down and smiled as though amused. “Hun, I’m way above your paygrade, so I suggest you don’t try it.”

“Aww. Come on.”

Lisa ignored him and instead turned to Michael and Linc. “Electricity’s out. What’s the next plan?”

“You have uniforms or things that look enough like construction crew clothing?” Michael asked.

“Yes.”

“Good. Let’s all put them on.”

They did. Michael knocked on the door.

The woman came to the door.

Michael put on his best smile. “Good day, ma’am. We are with the construction crew working over a block away and we might have blown a fuse. We traced it to here and we would like to fix it, free of charge. Could we do that?”

She looked at them. “Alright. Where is this power fuse?”

“It will probably be in your garage, ma’am.”

The woman smiled at him and moved out of the way. “Right this way.”

“Thank you, ma’am.”

Linc nodded at her as he went past. She smiled at him. T-bag smiled at her. Tweener looked straight ahead. Lisa nodded at her and they shared a smile. She led them to the garage. Linc closed the door behind them.

As soon as the door was closed, Michael pulled out the shovels and they started digging into the concrete.

A short while later, the woman opened the door to the garage again. “Do you need anything? Any lemonade?”

Lisa smiled at her interrupted. “That would be lovely, ma’am. Do you need any help getting it?”

“That would be lovely.”

Lisa turned back to Michael, nodded, and left with the woman.

As soon as the door was closed, T-bag said, “She’s pretty, Scofield. Though, I thought you had the hots for the prison doc.”

“T-bag, one more word out of you, and I’ll have her shoot you again with her gun.”

“Yes, sir. I didn’t mean nothing by it.”

The door to the outside opened. All of them snapped their eyes over to it, T-bag darting to one side of the door, Linc darting to the other side with a shovel.

Sucre and C-Note walked in.

“What the hell are you doing here?” Linc asked.

“Well, look like it’s one big Fox River reunion,” T-bag commented.

Michael climbed up from the hole. “Well as always, C-Note, your timing is flawless.”

C-Note frowned, taken aback. “I don't follow.”

Michael sighed. “We're trying to run something here, and we can't have people walking in off the street.”

C-Note laughed. “Oh. So you want us to leave and then you can just mail us the check?”

Michael approached Sucre. “Hi Sucre, I know you trust me and you know I'll cut you in on that money but the two of you being here right now jeopardizes everything.”

Sucre shook his head, “I'm not going nowhere. I want my share of the money. ‘Sides, what are you doing with them?” He nodded at Tweener and T-bag.

“They met up with us in town. But now we’re running it, and you need to be out of here for it to be successful.”

“No go, Snowflake,” C-Note shook his head.

The door to the house opened then and Lisa and the woman came in with Lisa saying, “Well, Jeanette, it’s real interesting. I’ll take your advice into account.” She trailed off, seeing the additional two people.

“Well hello, boys. Did the construction company send over additional folks?” she said before Jeanette could open her mouth.

Michael answered before anyone else could, “Yes Lisa. They did. Apparently someone else called over and they sent an additional team.”

Jeanette saw the hole. “Are you boys going to clean up my garage?”

Michael nodded. “Yes, ma’am. We will. We’re almost to the connection then we will switch it on and resurface your garage.”

Jeanette scowled at the men in her garage. Linc gave her a sheepish expression. Sucre looked at his feet. C-Note nodded at her. T-bag smiled.

“Well, if I can give them the lemonade, I’m sure we’ll be fine,” Lisa said, handing Linc and Michael two of the glasses in her hands, “Just an hour more and we’ll be out of your hair. Unfortunately, with the amount of concrete dust we’ll be generating, we’re probably going to need to put on masks soon.”

“You better be out of here soon,” Jeanette said, but she handed Lisa the next two glasses when she held up her hands for them.

“We will be, ma’am,” Michael agreed. She looked around the room, gave Linc a once over with her eyes and a flirtatious smile, and headed back out.

Lisa grabbed C-Note by the shirt and shoved him against the wall. “Are you a moron? Why would you interrupt a job like that if you want it to go off successfully?” she hissed at him.

“Who the heck are you?” C-Note looked at her then over at Michael for an answer.

Michael pulled himself out of the hole completely and stood. “C-Note, Sucre, meet Lisa Snart.”

“She another part of your plan, Papi?” Sucre asked.

Michael shook his head. “No, Sucre, it was a long story about how we met.”

Lisa smiled at him. “He came into my city and our local superhero mistook him for someone else, till he and Linc convinced the superhero’s team that he wasn’t.”

C-Note asked, “Local superhero? Where are you from?”

Lisa shrugged. “Somewhere between here and Chicago.”

C-Note inclined his head. “You don’t want to talk about it. Got it.”

Lisa inclined her head in reply. “What I would like to talk about is how you found you way here.”

C-Note glanced at Michael and Linc. “We were all in the room when Westmoreland told Fish there that the money was in Utah on the Double K Ranch.”

Lisa nodded. “And you didn’t stop by the municipal building?”

C-Note shook his head. “No, I looked at the Army site online.”

Michael glanced at Lisa then at Sucre. Linc pulled himself out of the hole. “Lisa, you have a point. Sucre, what did they do with your cousin?”

Sucre shook his head. “They would have questioned him.”

Michael nodded. “Think he would have told about the Double K Ranch?”

C-Note slapped his palms against his pants.

Linc said, “Fuck.”

Sucre sighed.

T-bag started saying, “See this is why you can’t trust…”

“You got something to say, T-bag?” C-Note walked over to glower at him.

T-bag shook his head.

Tweener looked from one face to the other. “Wait? What does that mean?”

Linc took off his hat and rub his head. “It means they have all the information to find where this place is and are probably on their way here now.”

“Well what do we do, man?” Tweener said. “I can’t go back in there.”

Sucre added, “I can’t either. Even if my girl Maricruz is marrying Hector.”

Linc turned to both of them. “You think I want to go back there? I was on death row!”

T-bag interrupted, “I think we can all agree we don’t want to go back.”

Michael interrupted, “We continue to dig out the money. Then we split up and go our separate ways. Lisa, can you go find out if we have a trail?” Linc nodded in agreement.

Lisa inclined her head.

Sucre asked, “What’s up?”

Michael answered, “We have a friend who is watching for trails on us.”

C-Note nodded, sizing up Michael again.

“If you’ll excuse me.” Lisa stepped outside and pulled out her phone. When she got Len on the phone she said, “Hi, dearest brother. We got a problem, which is to say the entire plan could be blown. We’re in the foundation now. But if you could you go check where the nearest FBI agency is and how much they know about various locations of various buildings?”

“Got it, Lise. How’re they doing?”

“An extra two teams showed up, that’s all, but everyone seems to be getting along alright.”

“Will it affect our cut?”

“Possibly.”

“Damn. I’ll check Salt Lake City for the nearest branch.”

“Do that. Oh and dearest brother?”

“Yes, sis?”

“I assume I don’t need to tell you to be careful.”

“You too.”

They hung up. Lisa went back inside. C-Note and Linc were in the hole digging. Michael and T-bag looked up as she entered, T-bag lounging against the wall.

“Well there, missy. Did you find out what you wanted out of your friend?” T-bag asked.

Lisa narrowed her eyes and turned to him, sizing him up. “You aren’t part of the planning so why don’t you get in there and carry your own weight?”

“I’m not because I can’t, little miss. Ever since Pretty and his fellow escapees cut off my hand, or didn’t he tell you that when you signed up with him?”

Lisa sneered at him. “Did you try to put it somewhere it wasn’t wanted, Bagwell?” She turned, dismissing him from her attention, and walked to Michael. T-bag walked over to a box and sat down on it.

“How’d it go?”

“He’s going to check out what they know in Salt Lake City.”

Michael nodded.

“Hey, did you know that Hamachi isn’t Yellowtail tuna, but a fish called a yellowtail amberjack?”

Linc and C-Note turned to him from where they were digging. “What the hell is Hamachi?”

“It’s sushi, Sink, but you wouldn’t know that would you, having spent most of your adult life in and out of prisons.”

“You know what? I’ve had enough crap out of your mouth…” Linc scrambled out of the hole towards T-bag.

“Hey! Stop it!” Michael shouted.

“You, hands off. You, just shut up,” Lisa pointed at Linc then at T-bag.

“Hey, Sink, I’ll do a little,” Sucre said.

Linc nodded and went to go get a drink from a hose just outside, passing by Tweener. “Tweener, get in there and spell C-Note.”

Tweener nodded and helped C-Note out of the hole.

As Linc and C-Note were coming back in, a loud clink of metal against something hard sounded. “Hey guys!” Sucre called out. “We hit something. Come take a look.”

Leonard Snart rode Lisa’s motorcycle into Salt Lake City, stopped at a library to look up the address of the FBI regional office. He found it with only a few minutes of searching, then called, pretending to be a competing janitor service, to find out the name of their janitor service. Once obtained, with the address of their janitor service gathered from a quick search online, he left the library, swung over by the janitors, and grabbed a janitor uniform with a hat and an ID, a 5 gallon bucket and a mop off the back of one of their trucks.

He then drove over to the FBI office, got into the uniform and approached the security desk. “Hi, sir. My company said one of the restrooms in the building has flooded. I can take care of that and be out of your hair in a jiffy.”

The guard looked up only long enough to see the uniform. “ID,” he said.

Len handed over the ID that he had grabbed along with the uniform. The guard typed the name in – a Frank Xavier. As he did so, Len said, “So, they having any luck in finding the Fox River criminals?”

The guard laughed, “You think they tell me that?”

“Surely you must have heard something. Least more than the news networks.”

“Why are you so interested?”

“They sound dangerous. I want them caught as much as the next person,” Len answered. “Also, it’s like the reality tv my sister watches only better.”

The guard laughed, “Well, we got an agent in from headquarters. Supposedly, they’re out here somewhere.”

“How’d they manage that?”

“They’re tricky. Supposedly the leader of it is the brother of the guy who killed the President’s brother. He’s clever.”

“Huh. Not more clever than the FBI surely?”

“No. The guy we got from headquarters – Agent Mahone is his name – he’s good. Though why he wants the old DB Cooper case is anyone’s guess.”

“DB Cooper. Wasn’t he the guy who disappeared on a plane with that money that they keep making shows about?”

“Yeah.”

“Well, wish Agent Mahone luck. Me, I better go clean the toilet mess.”

“Yeah, go on through, Mr. Xavier.”

“Thanks.”

He checked the building when he got in, just in case, and found that even though Mahone’s name was not on it (he had not been expecting it to be, but one never knows), the Regional Director was. He carried his bucket and mop up to that floor. A woman in a suit got it to the elevator and smiled at him. He smiled back. He got off on the floor where the Regional Head was. She put her foot in the door before it could close and grabbed his wrist. Her grip was firm.

“Are you Michael Scofield?” she asked.

He thickened his drawl. “Miss, I can assure you, if I was this Scofield guy, I wouldn’t be wearing this uniform getting calls about a clogged toilet.”

She scanned his face and, he realized, was pressing her fingers against his wrist to monitor whether his heartrate jumped. No nervousness or lies then.

“Where are you from?” she asked.

“Originally, from Central City. Still got the accent. Came out here for work when my sister came out.” His heartrate had not budged at all.

Her eyes narrowed, but she released him. “Fine. Don’t keep that clogged toilet waiting.”

He nodded, then looked both ways in the hall and wrinkled his nose. “Could you tell me where it is on this floor?” He gestured in either direction, looking sheepish.

She laughed, face lightening. “It’s that way.” She pointed.

He touched his hat. “Thank you, Miss. Best of luck finding these guys.”

She tipped her head. The elevator door closed. He started heading down the hall toward the bathroom, stepped in, waited until someone came in, and then stepped back out. Then he walked up the hall to the janitor closet, got out a janitor cart and pushed that over to the Regional Director’s office, where Agent Mahone would no doubt be.

He saw a man in an unbuttoned suit jacket who looked strung out on something in the conference room next to the Regional Director’s office, and kept his head down under his hat as he examined him. There was a trash bin in there that allowed him to get close enough when picking it up and emptying it to get a closer look. Neither the Regional Director nor the other man looked over at him at all.

The man wore a badge that said Agent Mahone. He had a file in his hand and was demanding all the information on the DB Cooper case. The Regional Director expressed surprise. Mahone told him that Scofield and others of the Fox River Eight were going to find where they thought that money was. The Regional Director told him that they still had men who had been involved with that investigation but had never found anything. Mahone demanded the name and they called for the man who had been on the investigation.

Len took out toilet paper from the cart and went to put a roll in each bathroom while the man came up. When the elevator door opened and an older man got off, he went back to the cart.

The man informed Mahone and the Regional Director that they had interviewed a young man at a gas station a ways outside of Salt Lake City.

“Great,” Mahone said, opening the file. “Did you notice he lied? He said once that he met Westmoreland at 7am and once that he met him at 7pm. Let’s go see which it was. With that and his tattoo, we should be able to find out where they are.”

That said, Mahone, the older man and the Regional Director walked out of the conference room. Len ducked his head down again and pushed the cart back to the janitor’s closet, then took the next elevator down.

In the janitor closet, he picked up his cell and called his sister. “Emergency. They’re getting closer to Tooele and they know about the tattoo.”

“Shit,” Lisa said.

“You almost out of there?”

“We’re got the money all packed away and are covering the garage floor now.”

“Great. Then get out of there.”

“Sure thing.” They hung up.

Len pulled off the uniform and tossed them and the ID in the bucket, which he left inside the janitor closet outside the security gates in the lobby. He threw on his sunglasses and walked out of the building. They were just getting into a car when he swung his leg over Lisa’s motorcycle. He allowed them a head start then followed.

“Okay, boys, time to hurry it up and get going. They know about Tooele, and Michael, they know about the tattoo. I’d say everything on there is suspect.”

“Damnit!” Linc tossed his hat to the ground.

“A few more minutes, then we can go.” Michael gestured at the backpacks, the big one where they had put a majority of the money, and the smaller ones where they had put around $10,000 each.

“Just finish the floor then we have to leave.”

They heard a car pulled up to the house. Lisa looked out the door and froze. “It’s a cop.”

“Shit!” C-Note swore.

“What do we do?” Tweener said.

Lisa watched as the cop came up to the door and opened it. A call of, “Mom?” could be heard inside the house.

“Jeanette has a police officer for a daughter,” T-bag observed, putting down one of the magazines he had been stacking on his lap which he had found somewhere in the garage and had been reading from to annoy those who were digging.

Michael gave a slight nod. Sucre’s eyes darted to him and he gave a slight nod back.

Sucre pulled a gun on all of them.

“What the hell, Sucre?” Michael shouted.

“Everybody to the floor! Now!” Sucre aimed the gun at C-note, at Tweener, at Michael, at T-Bag and at Linc.

She eyed Michael, who got to the floor as quickly as possible. He met her eyes and gave a slight smile then eyed T-Bag, Tweener, and C-Note. She understood: the plan was to get Sucre to take the money and follow him.

She got to the floor as well.

Sucre grabbed the backpack and still aiming the gun at them, exited the garage door.

After Sure exited, Michael got to his feet again and kicked something, running his hands over his head. “Fuck!” he shouted.

“So much for the money, huh, Snowflake,” C-note said.

“We still got the money in our individual packs. I suggest that we don’t wait till the floor is dry and go. The cop is likely to recognize us.”

“We can try to track Sucre from the truck,” Lisa said.

Michael nodded. “We should all split up to look, and to make it harder for them to track us.”

“Yeah, Pretty. Guess this plan didn’t work out as well as you’d thought,” T-bag said. “I’m leaving first.” He pulled a gun out of his bag and aimed it at Michael.

Michael put up his hands, nodded at T-bag. T-bag took his pack and left. Then Michael got up and handed C-Note a bag with around $10,000 in it. “My apologies, C-Note. If any of us gets the money, or needs to communicate, there’s a website, europeangoldfinch.net, which is a chat room.”

C-Note nodded, hugged Michael and Linc and headed out. Tweener gestured at a backpack. Michael threw one at him. “Get out of here.”

Tweener nodded and left, leaving Lisa, Linc and Michael behind. “We had best get out of here too.” He nodded at the house.

Lisa nodded and grabbed their packs.

Linc grabbed his brother and shoved him against the wall. “What the hell, Michael? I thought you trusted that guy!”

Michael nodded. “We’ll meet up just out of town.”

“Wait? This was part of your plan?” Linc shouted.

“Made on the spot, but yes, I handed him a note while we were digging. That way, Leonard, Lisa and Mick get their ten percent, and of the remainder, we get seventy percent and Sucre gets thirty.”

Linc released Michael and turned to Lisa. “Did you know about this?”

“Not till it was ongoing, but it was similar enough to something Lenny and Mick pulled that I played along.”

Linc gestured at Michael. “Next time, give me some hint.”

Michael tipped his head. “If the situation allows for it, I will. Now, I’m going to meet up with Sucre. You two meet us with the truck.”

Lisa nodded at them, “You two go reconnect her power and then get in the truck. I’m going to tell Jeanette we finished her garage.”

Michael and Linc nodded and got into the truck. Lisa stuck her head into the house. “Hi, ma’am. Oh, I didn’t know you had company!”

“Who’s this, Mom?” said the cop.

“Construction company from up the road. We traced a cable that went out while we were working to under your garage, dug it up, replaced it and resurfaced your garage. You should have power again in five minutes.”

The cop narrowed her eyes. “And how much will that cost?”

“We did it for free. We’re not sure it wasn’t our fault the cable went out in the first place. You should be back up and running, but just in case, feel free to call the construction company.”

“I’m going to go check on the garage to make sure nothing’s missing,” said the cop.

“Yes, ma’am.”

At that moment, the power came back on. “See what did I tell you?”

“Thank you.”

“We’re going home now, but if you need anything, don’t hesitate to give us a call,” Lisa added, digging around in her construction uniform before coming up with a business card for a construction company. “Have a good day.”

She met Michael and Linc in the truck.

Lisa pulled out a box and put it on the dashboard. “What’s that?” Linc asked.

“Police radio. Lenny, Mick and I use it to track where the cops are. I figured it’d be useful now.”

Michael nodded. “Very useful.”

Lisa turned it on. “Car 94, go check if the missing car belongs to the college girl.”

“What’s car 72 doing?”

“Car 72 has been put on the Fox River case. FBI wants to check out the DB Cooper case.”

“Again? Why?”

“Apparently that’s what the Fox River Eight are headed toward.”

“They found it?”

“They think they have.”

“Good for them! Sorry, sir, but it’d be good to know someone’s solved it.”

“Just go check on the car, Simpson.”

The police radio went quiet. Lis asked, “Do you want to find out what the FBI agent knows?”

“Is that possible?”

“Jeanette’s cop had a picture in front of a cop car with the number 82, and that’s the number on the cop car. However, it’ll give them our voices and tell them we were listening in, so they won’t use the radio anymore.”

“And they won’t know we’re here if we just listen?”

“No. Not at all.”

“Let’s just listen in as observers then.”

Lisa nodded. “Turn on the truck radio too in that case. We want to hear everything about where they think we are.”

Linc did.

“More news in the Fox River case. Lincoln Burrows Junior, the son of Lincoln Burrows. He was arrested in connection with a double homicide, but is being released due to the disappearance of blood and fingerprint evidence.”

“That’s my son!” Linc turned up the volume on the radio. “He’s being released. We gotta go get him.”

Lisa grabbed him. “We ain’t going without a plan.”

“Linc, that’s just what they want.”

Linc shook her off. “You don’t understand. That’s my son! That’s LJ!”

“Yes, I do understand, Linc. But we don’t have time for this now!”

Lisa reached over and grabbed his jacket, pulling him close and looking into his eyes. “Listen, you idiot! He was released because they’re hoping to lure you out. Understood? And I’m not saying we can’t get him. Yeah?” Linc licked his lip. “We just gotta get him with a plan. Do you understand?” Linc nodded. Lisa sighed and let go of him. “Okay. First. We get… Sucre, I believe his name is?”

“Sucre.” Michael nodded.

“Then we get Lincoln Burrows Junior.”

“LJ.”

“Understood?”

Linc nodded. “But we aren’t going to get LJ ourselves. We’re going to call in a few favors. Now, where is he?”

Michael nodded. “Arizona.”

Lisa sighed. “Lenny has a contact there.”

Michael said, “Are you sure?”

Lisa pulled out her phone. “He owes us big time. He’ll do it.” She opened it. “Out of the house. Calling Charles Moran. Kid of a passenger of ours was just released from custody. In Arizona. How many favors can I use, dearest brother? Ok. Great. Ugh. Good luck with that then. Oh? On what? Well, let us know if what he’s on proves useful.”

She hung up. “Lenny says the agent – Mahone – is apparently strung out on something. He thinks it’s a downer of some variety and is going to find out more. Now I’m going to call our contact.”

“Charlie. How are you? You want to pay up? Listen very closely. Kid of a… passenger of ours was just released from custody. Course that’s what I mean. He’s in Arizona. Name of LJ. Yes. Wouldn’t you like to know? Alright. Meet at the diner. You know the one. Don’t disappoint me.”

Linc stared at her. “What did he owe you?”

“He was an idiot and almost made a job go pear shaped. My brother was in a good mood that day and let him live. Also, he didn’t make things go unfixably wrong.”

“Your brother kills people?” Michael asked.

“Does it bother you?”

“Yes,” Michael answered.

“Don’t worry about it. He tries not to kill innocents, if at all possible.”

“Still,” Linc said.

“If it disturbs you so much, you’re welcome to get out. Besides, he agreed not to recently and has been good about keeping his word.”

Michael nodded and met Linc’s eyes. “If it helps us get LJ,” Linc said.

“But first let’s meet up with Sucre.”

“Fine. Tell me where you agreed to meet him.”

Sucre met up with them in a woods just outside of Tooele. “Hi, Sucre. Need a lift?” Michael said as they leaned out of the truck.

Sucre stopped and turned to smile at the truck. “Hi, Papi. Hi Sink.”

“Don’t just gape at the truck. Get in,” Lisa said. Sucre nodded at her and climbed in.

“Hi. I’m Fernando Sucre.”

“Lisa Snart.”

“My cousin’s bike is back there a ways.”

“Fine. We’ll go get it. But first, let me see the money.”

Sucre’s eyes snapped to Michael.

“I agree to give her ten percent.”

Sucre nodded and opened the bag, to reveal National Geographic magazines, the same as the ones T-bag had been reading from earlier. “What the…?”

Linc saw them and frowned. “What are those?”

Lisa stopped and looked over at them. “Shit.” She picked up the one on top. “That creep! T-bag?”

“T-bag,” Sucre agreed.

“Damnit,” Michael swore.

“What are we going to do now, Michael?” Linc said. “Should have killed him when I had the chance.”

Lisa flipped open her phone. “Lenny, there’s a problem. Blond haired guy with one hand and a backpack has the money. He won’t be far from Tooele. Yeah. He’s a creeper too. No, on foot. Yeah, he reminds me of Tyler. Yep, that type. He’s got a blue backpack. The big backpack. Scrawny guy, paisley shirt. Yes. Thank you, Lenny.”

He turned back to the three in her truck. “I put a tracking device in the bags. Lenny will track him down. You didn’t have any attachment to him, right?”

T-bag was just getting in the car he had driven from Illinois in, at the motel on the outskirts of Tooele, when a man in sunglasses and a blue parka pulled a motorcycle in beside his car. The man turned to survey him, got off his bike and walked over to the car, taking off his sunglasses as he did.

“Pretty, I didn’t think I’d be seeing you again,” T-bag started.

The man who looked like Michael interrupted, speaking with a thick drawl. “Hand over the money.”

T-bag had not felt nervous around Michael in prison. If anything, Michael had given him the impression of someone who didn’t have it in him to kill another person. Looking at him now, however, he got an entirely different impression. “I was just keeping it safe for you, so why don’t we split it and then you can get more than you would have gotten splitting it with hundred dollar Mr. Africa and your Puerto Rican cellie.”

The man who looked like Michael moved up to him to stare into his eyes. “Mmm. How bout I just take it all and shoot you?”

“You don’t got it in you, Pretty. However, if you was to permit me to come along with you while you pull your disappearing act, I could be persuaded to give you a sixty percent share.”

The man shook his head and tightened his jaw. T-bag looked into his eyes and saw that they had gotten colder.

“Or more. We can split it three ways between your brother, you and me.”

“Again. You screwed up a job.” The man took another step forward. T-bag took a step back.

“I’m sure something can be arranged between the two of us. Maybe, I can just take ten percent it in exchange for a roll in the hay.”

“With you?”

“Pretty, I’ve had my eyes on you since the day you was brought into Fox River. I’d be willing to let you go with a majority of the money in exchange for that.”

The man looked up and down T-bag. “Don’t think so. Now, give me the money.”

T-bag took a step toward him. “Pretty, I may just find you afterwards and have my way with your pretty ass anyway.”

The man who looked like Michael raised an eyebrow. “Maybe you don’t understand what’s going on here. I am taking the money and leaving you alive, if you cooperate.”

“Pretty, you don’t have it in you.”

The man who looked like Michael pulled out an oversized gun that revved a cold, electric blue. With no change in expression, he shot T-bag with a blue beam of light. The last thing T-bag felt was his body flinching away from the coldness spreading through his belly.

Len stared down at the frozen corpse of T-bag determining that he had known rapists like that in Iron Heights. They were all awful. He gave the corpse a kick, then looked in the passenger seat of the car. Sure enough, the backpack was in there. He checked to make sure the money was in the backpack – showing up with the pack with no cash wouldn’t do. The pack was loaded with bundles of twenties. He inclined his head, tied the pack firmly onto his motorcycle, loaded T-bag into the car, and rode towards Michael and the others with the money.

“Hi, sis. The package is safe and sound.”

She hung up on the opposite end. “Boys, the money is in our possession.”

#my fic #prison break #the flash #the flash/prison break crossover #snart and scofield to the company came #michael scofield #lincoln burrows #lisa snart #leonard snart #t-bag #tweener #fernando sucre #c-note #alex mahone

1 note · View note

powerranks · 7 years

Text

Power Rankings, Week 6

David’s too busy to handle these so I’m stepping in for him this week. I will try to write these up as if I were writing about NFL teams. They’ll be less funny, and here’s hoping David can take over again next week. Special thanks to David, Chris, and Anthony because a lot of the points I’ll bring up in this article are things they pointed out to me during our endless conversations about fantasy football.

The Undefeated

1. Scott’s Balls 12-4- 16 Record: 6-0 Actual Rank: 1 What is there to say about this team other than it is on fire? Hunt hasn’t scored a touchdown in four straight games but has still scored 10+ every week. In case anyone somehow missed the newest “fuck you” of the year for the golden god himself, Anthony traded for Cooper before Thursday night’s game in which Cooper put in what very well may be a top 10 WR performance of the season. Meanwhile, he still has Ingram who made a hell of a resurgence last week after the AP trade. Speaking of the AP trade, Anthony followed the cardinals lead and is looking for similar success out of it. And all of this is not mentioning Bell, Gronk, and a revitalized Cam Newton. Similar to the Dodgers, this just feels like a magic year for last year’s champ. Anthony is basically a lock for the playoffs, and barring some serious injuries, I think he’s the clear favorite for the championship this year.

Closing The Gap

2. Fournette About it Record: 4-2- 0 blaze it Actual Rank: 3 Jack is 2 points in week 1 and 1 point in week 6 away from also being undefeated himself. 2 crazy losses that are gonna be crucial when it comes to playoff seeding. Last week was another heart breaker for Jack But he still looks primed for a solid run and he’s been a heavy hitter who got even stronger with a big trade for Elliot. After losing a top 10 RB in Dalvin cook, Jack did what he believed he had too in shipping off Hopkins for another top 10 RB. With Jack’s crazy combo of Fournette, AB, Gurley, and Zeke it’s difficult to not rank him number 1 overall. 3 points away from the same record as Anthony. If Zeke doesn’t get suspended this year, Jack should waltz into the playoffs and be a true contender for it all. It’s good to have you in the league man.

The Murky Middle (Ranking everyone else is a nightmare and I can see an argument for switching almost everyone from 3-7 around)

3. Mixon It Up Record: 2-4 Actual Rank: 8 Alec had a VERY slow start. But we have to remember OBJ didn’t play week 1 and wasn’t himself week 2. Now even though OBJ went down, Alec made moves and solid starts and has averaged right around 100 every week since. That’s going to win you a lot of games. He played me when my team had an outrageous 133 surpassing my best score by over 40 and lost to Anthony when he scored 158. Losing the two early games and then facing two teams that just goes off seems more like bad luck than bad team. Alec’s consistency should help dig him out of 8th place, and in the hunt all year long.

4. Scotts’ Penis Record: 3-3 Actual Rank: 6 David went out and got himself the #2 QB and is 500 across 3 weeks. Andrew Luck probably won’t play this year and it probably won’t matter. Here we find another RB heavy team. But unfortunately for David, he’s stuck with the inconsistent trio of Hyde, Ajayi, and McCoy. But those guys still have upside coming out of the wazoo. McCoy’s schedule is a cake walk and he’s BOUND to regress to the mean and score a few TD’s. Ajayi touches the ball a whopping 25 times a game and luckily volume is probably more valuable than talent when it comes to fantasy. McKinnon, Allen, and the newly acquired Smith might be able to help David through the underperforming RB weeks he’s bound to hit from time to time. The switch from Reed to Brate is a week overdue. But I see this team trending up and could see it hitting its stride at a good time this season.

5. Anthony’s Golden Taint Record: 3-3 Actual Rank: 6 Dylan’s team is REALLY hard to rank for me. So I put him at 5 cause it seemed safest and I have no idea what to actually expect from it for the rest of the year. Cousins has top 5 QB potential ROS and if Hundley locks in on Nelson his situation isn’t that bad. BUT, this is a running back driven league and Murray and CJ Anderson aren’t the sure things we’ve seen in the past. The Denver Bronco’s might turn to a committee which hugely hurts Dylan. And while Anthony’s patriots duo of Hogan and Gronk have come through for him time and time again, Dylan’s Patriots continue to underwhelm and disappoint. Cooks is having a good year but is still a Boom/Bust play and Gillislee is as frustrating a back to own as ever. But this team’s starting line up looks pretty good every single week. The Seahawks defense, a high scoring kicker, and a Tight End with endless upside aren’t a sexy as a stud RB, but paired with everything else has going on, I think it can do enough each week to keep Dylan in every matchup.

6. Green Evans and Ham Record: 3-3 Actual Rank: 7 It feels tough ranking myself and six might be too high. But the trio of Gordon, Evans, and AJ feels hard to ignore. Gordon has been a stud this year and this team definitely has the best WR duo, but with our Standard league scoring and the way RB’s dominate fantasy, its not as big a threat as some of the other rosters. Losing Rodgers is brutal and definitely knocks me down a peg or two. And getting Matt Ryan is not as savvy a solution as David and his Smith trade. Plus without my huge week against Alec and a lucky win against Jack last week, I could easily be 1-5. I’m talking myself out of being sixth. BUT, we’ve never seen this team with Gordon/Evans/Green on at the same time and I like this top heavy situation vs what we’ve going on with the next few teams.

7. Scott’s Jizz Record: 3-3 Actual Rank: 4 Another tough team to rank. Dak, Dez, and Kelce have been performing well enough each week, but definitely aren’t a scary top three. Powell and White might not start for anyone else in the league, and Michael Thomas has been a disappointment. BUT, this team does have 3 wins. And does get David Johnson back, AND has some pieces worth trading for/starting (DJAX for one). I think this team can trade its way into being solid. Someone going to the playoffs will want Johnson (Probably the AP owner, Scott please don’t trade Anthony or jack David Johnson.) and Everyone is willing to pay for either of your tightends. I personally think You need to step your RB’s up immediately or you could drop enough games to miss playoffs entirely. And I think you’ve missed out on a ton of WW opportunity this year Scott. The pieces are there. You just need to start making some moves. Your team score varies wildly week to week and is hard to predict. And you definitely have a past of starting strong and then watching your team fall apart as time goes on. I hope it’s your year to fight through that. I think whether this team goes to playoffs or goes to the sacko is completely up to you.

A Whole Bunch of Questions (This may as well be a three way tie but since I HAVE to choose, here it is)

8. Smallerwood Record: 1-5 Actual Rank: 9 Its tough to put you here because of that 1-5 record. Trading away Amari Cooper before that big game has got to hurt. And I bet your regretting it endlessly. BUT, at the time it seemed like a very solid and understandable move. You shipped off someone who had virtually done nothing but lose you games week in and week out for a lot of potential. The reason why I have you ahead of Alex and Tony is because of nothing but my faith that Julio Jones will right the ship and start putting up points again. He has some good matchups coming up, and he has all the talent in the world. Howard is a true workhouse and should be a consistent RB1 every week, and the rest of your team isn’t dreadful. You and I are both just grabbing RB’s and hoping they pan out. It’s a solid strategy that I think pays off. If Kelley/Smallwood get healthy and produce in the next two weeks, all of a sudden you have a plethora of trade pieces.

9. Hammer Record: 1-5 Actual Rank: 10 I love freeman, I love Brady, and then we get to the part of your team that worries me. Fitz/Hilton/Mccafrey/fuller are all such interesting pieces. BUT, none of them have really done enough to strike fear into an opponent’s heart. I think this is the team most likely to score 135 one week, and then score 78 the next. But its Tony and he knows how to manage a roster and he’s the one who handed down that famous Mendola Luck to Anthony, so if he makes a wild card spot this year, WATCH OUT.

10. 420 Blountz Record: FOUR TWENTY Actual Rank: 2 I ranked the guy that’s in second dead last. Just so you understand how tough this was. BUT ALEX, after Hopkins and Watson,Tyreek who’s your next best player? Tyreek and his boom/bust potential leads to a lot of heartache. Your RB’s are somewhat dreadful. Hopkins and Watkins is a fucking solid pairing and might be enough each week to squeak out wins, but if Aaron Jones and Agholar don’t pan out, this could be a long season for you.

PICKS

Hey it’s David again, cha boy making the picks

Scott’s Penis (David) over Smallerwood (Chris)

Scott’s Balls 12-4-16 (Anthony) over Scott’s Jizz (Scott)

Mixon It Up (Alec) over Fournette About It (Jack)

Hammer (Tony) over 420 Blounts (Alex)

Anthony’s Golden Taint (Dyl) over Green Evans and Ham (Beshoy)

0 notes