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elenscaie · 4 years

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(Criminal Minds, Gen, all of this in thanks to @elloryia for both the graphic and the inspiration.)

Set: Post-Revelations.

Prompt is:

Spencer shifts in his hospital bed and does his best to ignore the indignity of being bared from the back down. The gown itself is only a little bit scratchy but it's enough to irritate him. The texture makes him grimace and he turns his head to the side and leans his head on the pillow; his curls slide, sweat-slick, along his forehead and he wants to shut his eyes against the light. The fixtures here aren't in tones of yellow but instead fluorescent white bulbs built into the ceilings. Impartial and impersonal, suffusing the walls and shading his skin, spilling a gentle shine onto hands finger-threading together. He took one glance up and found his vision swimming, blurring, the lights with their white glow morphing, muddling up, a morass of yellow. A single flickering bulb casting sickly shades around a shack stinking of offal and caged fear. He hasn't looked up since. He has half a mind to climb out of the bed and book it for the entrance. The space feels as confining and cramped as it did in the shack. He hates it. He wants out. His mind, for once, cannot dredge up a solution fast enough. Getting past the medical staff, doctors, nurses, the receptionist—it all strikes as too much, and his thoughts are caught up yet in a haze. It's with this calm—and such a disturbing calm, for he's never known his mind to gentle itself to the point of slow and steady instead of the frenzy it's usually held prisoner within—that Spencer registers the door opening. It swings on well-oiled hinges, near-silent, and he doesn't bother turning to see who's there. Which is why it strums his nerves to surprised when the voice that carries over on still air is not the one he expected. "Don't play at being asleep, Pretty Boy, we've got some catchin' up to do." His head jerks up, snaps to the right. And yes, his ears aren't lying. Standing there, eyes sad-soft, with a smile Spencer has looked to more than once for support and reassurance, is— "Derek." It feels ridiculous, or maybe not, to find some strength—feeble though it may be—sinking into him. Strength borrowed from the determined stance his friend is in, from the way that Spencer knows, knows, absolutely knows that nothing will see him harmed as long as Morgan is there. So he sits himself up as best as he can and says, tired and drained, stumbling through his words with a tongue lost to the whims of drugstore heroin: "I thought it would be Hotch." Hotch, for whom he left the clue in a bible verse misaimed on purpose. Hotch, who he embraced, voice a rasp of weak relief. I knew you'd understand. Somehow, he isn't surprised. Hotch left just as quickly as he arrived. Moreso, he is their Unit Chief, their leader. Spencer cannot stand to fathom what awaits him in the form of Strauss most-likely calling him to task, of the superiors he has to explain this all to, of the aftermath beyond what he is currently processing. Dimly, he spares thought to what his own file will say. If it will list the array of indignities dealt to him. Kidnapped, beaten, made to play a false God in the hopes of a victim being saved. He can bear that. But the drugging— His mind, his gift, weapon and shield, sword and shelter, made useless and pliant and murky with his bloodstream singing blessed-cursed-calm— It hurts. His hands form fists overtop the sheets and he objects not one whit when Morgan drops into a chair and splays a hand over both of his. There's that strength again, and Spencer lets it weave its way within until a small tremulous smile wisps across his lips. Tears, however, he is ashamed to shed. They gather at the corners of his eyes and spill forth, but he simply sighs. Builds up his wall with just a touch more of adamantine instead of steel and prays that they won't be called to attention. If anyone understands the sanctity of secrecy, privacy, dignity, it's Morgan. "He's not big on missing out on your reception. Had to call in and inform the big-wigs that everything's gotten settled, and then that got out of control. Think they want to tear his hide out or just tear him a new one, so JJ tagged along to help smooth it all out." The words are neither a balm nor an irritant; Spencer suspected as much. "He'd be here if he could, promise." Spencer nods. "I know." For a handful of beats, all is silence. It's peaceful. Braces him up against something more than a hospital bed all-too rigid, something firm, soothing, immovable. He gives Morgan's hand a squeeze and takes quiet comfort in the steady-sure grip that answers him. Silence that gains a hairline crack when a new voice wafts on in from the door. "Let's not make it a party without me. Don't leave me out of the fun, guys." Emily walks in, and her steps are conviction grounded upon concern, and Spencer weighs his dignity with his exhaustion, decides it doesn't matter, and blurts out, "Is it ever a party if you're not around?" It's more offhand than it should be, but Emily is still too new and the ache of Elle's departure smarts, fresh and sharp. But he reaches a hand out and gestures to another chair. The second the brush of prim sensible red button-up fabric bursts up against plain pleather, Spencer feels his eyes sliding shut. Weariness hangs, clings to his bones like a funeral shroud, and it's all he can do to not give in right then and there. "Don't—" Emily's voice, and it's as firm-gentle as he's ever heard her in their short time together as collegues, but it isn't Morgan's. Yet it seems as if molded out of the same iron as his. Spencer cracks his eyes open enough to set them to slivered slants. Once she sees she has his attention, she reaches out with a hand and rests it above both of theirs. It's a warmth bouyed up by resolve and that alone makes his smile just a little less shaky. It isn't enough to take down the walls he's built up over his whole life, but that's to be expected. A safeguard of sorts, because too much trust, too much confidence in another— It can't end well. Not always. That much proved itself already; he forewent JJ keeping guard at his back and paid the price for it. No one to blame but himself and that stings so much it's yet another pile of exhaustion on top of what's already heaped upon his shoulders. But it's a start. Emily tells him, "Don't hold out, not here, not now. You don't have to anymore. Go to sleep, we'll be here when you wake." It's nearly enough, but he manages to keep awake until Morgan's voice rolls on out, rich and stern and knowing in all of its rumble-timbre. "There ain't anything out there gettin’ in here, now get that shut-eye. I don't want to imagine Strauss hauling ass all the way here before we're all ready for it. Not a dressing down I'd ever want to see in my lifetime." "That's not just you, you know." And Spencer finally slides his eyes shut and lets the wind of sleep drag him away and into oblivion-empty broken up by the wind of dreams. As damning as it is, with the drugs in his system and his thoughts turning on the slow slither of molasses melting in the sun, it's the best sleep he's had in a long time.

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lynchgirl90 · 7 years

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#TwinPeaks @Kyle_MacLachlan Actually, no one in the cast know what's going to happen!

'Twin Peaks': David Lynch and Kyle MacLachlan on the Revival's Secretive Nature

It is happening again — and that's just about all David Lynch is willing to say on the subject of the Twin Peaks revival.

The legendary filmmaker, who along with co-creator Mark Frost serves as the key creative mind behind Peaks, one of the strangest and most surreal series in television history, returns to the Pacific Northwest for another proverbial slice of cherry pie in Showtime's upcoming revival. Much like it was in the damn good coffee glory days, the new iteration of the series comes shrouded in secrecy. Trailers and teasers have revealed almost nothing about the plot, except for the fact that some of those familiar gumshoes you liked are back in style, including Kyle MacLachlan as Agent Dale Cooper, the late Miguel Ferrer as the blunt but brilliant Agent Albert Rosenfield, and Lynch himself as the hard-of-hearing Gordon Cole.

Beyond that? Fans are in the dark, trapped in a Black Lodge of sorts as they wait to find out what exactly happened to Agent Cooper after the brutal cliffhanger that closed out season two. For frustrated fans looking for someone to blame for all the secrecy, look no further than Lynch.

"It comes from my own personal desire to not know anything before I see a film," Lynch tells The Hollywood Reporter about why he's keeping the story under such tight wraps, an ethos so serious that several of the cast and crew won't be permitted to speak about Peaks on the record until after the season ends in September. "I want to experience it in a pure way and be taken into a world, letting it go where it takes you. It takes you where it wants to take you, and it's a beautiful, beautiful experience. It's very precious, and the more you know, it sort of takes away from that full experience."

Lynch is so committed to keeping the show's secrets that he won't say whether the upcoming season paves the way for another. ("I'm not allowed to speak about this," he says.) He won't weigh in on any of the new characters, either. ("I don't know if I can really get into that," he offers coyly, punctuating the mystery with a quick laugh.) He's tight-lipped on the casting process, too, with the series involving more than 200 actors, including franchise newcomers (albeit Lynch veterans) Laura Dern and Naomi Watts.

"You try to get the right person for the part, and that's it," he says. "Pure and simple. So much of filmmaking is common sense."

It's common sense that Peaks is returning now, given the events of the initial series. In season one's unforgettable third episode, Agent Cooper experiences a vision of an older version of himself sitting inside the infamous Red Room, where he sees the backwards-speaking Man From Another Place (Michael J. Anderson) and a woman who is a dead-ringer for the dead Laura Palmer. "I'll see you again in 25 years," she later tells Cooper — and at least on that one plot point, Lynch confirms that Laura's promise has been upheld.

"It's 25 years after" the original run, Lynch says about when the series takes place. "It was spoken about in the original series, and it just so happened to be about that time [in real time], so Mark and I got together and started talking. One thing led to another, and here we are." Lynch adds that he and Frost didn't write that line originally with the intention of returning to this story all these years later: "It wasn't really something you can plan, but then again, there it was."

How will the 25 years of story and real time between seasons impact what viewers are about to see when they return to the Great Northern and the Bang Bang Bar? Again, here comes Lynch with another riddle: "I'll say that many things are the same, and many things are different, just like in real life." Take Agent Cooper as an example of that dichotomy. It's clear that Kyle MacLachlan is once again locked and loaded to lead the charge on Twin Peaks, but it's not clear that he'll be reprising the eternally optimistic Cooper, at least not in the traditional form. The final episode of the series ended with Cooper's soul trapped inside the Black Lodge, with the murderous spirit Killer BOB (played by the late Frank Silva) now occupying Cooper's mortal form in the real world.

"It was kind of like, the engine's revved up again," MacLachlan tells THR about that nightmarish ending. "There's a great question of, 'What's going to happen now?' Unfortunately, it was too late — which is why it's so beautiful that we're able to return after all of this time and pick the story up and move forward and hopefully have some answers."

Alas, those answers will have to wait, as MacLachlan happily abides by Lynch's policy.

"I think it's terrific," says MacLachlan. "I'm excited about the idea. I'm actually thrilled about the idea, that we've been able to keep it under wraps, which was the idea from the very, very beginning. When I had my first reading of the script, I read it at the studio in a room by myself. Of course, I didn't tell them I took photographs of every page…."

(He's kidding, of course, in case Mr. Lynch is reading.)

"They let me read it all the way through, and then I had to pass the script back," he continues. "The pages were then distributed out, and I was one of the ones who had most of the script, which I needed. Most people just received what was pertinent to them. Again, it was an effort to keep things contained, and also to help us. That way, if anyone asks us about the story, we could say, 'I don't really know!' As opposed to feeling an obligation to say something, or maybe you would feel compelled out of your own sense of whatever to say it's about this or this. There were no opportunities for that. I love that people are going to be embarking on this fresh. For something that's so well known, it's going to be a whole new journey. I think that's wonderful."

When it comes to speaking about Peaks from a structural standpoint, Lynch and MacLachlan are much more open than they are about the story. The series is set to air across 18 episodes, all of which were directed by Lynch, who prefers to view them as 18 hours of one sprawling movie.

"I see it as a film," he says. "I think if you think about it as one whole that's been divided, it's a little different than thinking about it as one episode after another. It's just a little bit different."

"It was definitely a different structure," MacLachlan agrees. "Instead of traditional episodes that were handed out one by one, this came as a very long feature. He's made a point of calling them 'hours' or 'parts.' In his mind, he's directed an 18-hour movie that was fractured into 18 installments. It's different in the telling of the story; maybe not different in the playing, because the scripts were already broken into scenes, anyway. You're concentrating on smaller pieces. But when you go to assemble it? I'm sure the editors were looking at it and going, 'What are we going to do!' The assemblage, I'm sure, was very different."

The structure may be very different, but several other ingredients are very familiar, starting with the man who plays Cooper and the man who created the character. Twin Peaks' long-awaited return serves as the long-awaited reunion of Lynch and MacLachlan, who first worked together on the 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune. After more than 30 years of knowing each other and collaborating on films like Blue Velvet, few individuals are better positioned to weigh in on Lynch's mysterious ways than MacLachlan.

"He's unlike anything else," says the actor. "The environment he creates for us is so supportive. There's a lot of humor involved. There's tremendous focus. There's a clarity of vision. If for some reason he's not sure about something, he sits and thinks about it until he's sure. There's no forward steps without knowing where we're going. But that's not to say he's not open to happy accidents, as well. That's one of the catchphrases about David's process: If there's something that happens that's unexpected or accidental, as opposed to rejecting it outright, oftentimes he welcomes it in. He counts it as life. Those things can be very revealing and important. There's room for that in the creative process. It's a real pleasure working with him, whether you're talking to an old-timer like me or people who have just come on for the first time. To a person, they'll say that it was one of the best working experiences they have ever had."

To MacLachlan and the hundreds of actors appearing this year in Twin Peaks, rest assured: the feeling is mutual.

"I love these characters, and I love the actors and actresses," says Lynch. "This was like getting together for a family reunion."

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan on Negan and 'Walking Dead's' return

Jeffrey Dean Morgan has always been a very busy actor, but as 2015 came to a close, his career warped into light speed hyperdrive. Most fans remember him fondly from his twelve episodes on "Supernatural" playing John Winchester, but while he was shooting the CW record-breaking show, Morgan was also filming "Grey's Anatomy." Both shows put him on the map where fans would recognize him. He frustrated "Supernatural" fans as the Winchester Brothers never could seem to unravel all of their father's secrets, but who could resist that grin? You'd think that would have been reaching the pinnacle of his success, but that was only just the beginning that kept Morgan busy becoming that guy you sometimes got confused with actor Javier Bardem. His luck was getting better as he landed quite the juicy role on the New York set of "The Good Wife" where he played Alicia Florrick's funloving cad who loved flashing that devilish grin at his co-star Julianna Margulies. He was on that series for nineteen episodes, but things were changing as AMC's huge hit show came calling for him to play the over the top bad guy Negan. During his "Good Wife" time he was also jetting down to the Georgia to sink his teeth into that pure evil role for the Season 6 finale of "The Walking Dead." Not to mention getting acquainted with Lucy. After years of fans wondering who would play the role, Morgan had landed Negan, that grinning, swaggering bully who, with his co-dependent worker bees, began terrorizing Rick Grimes (series star Andrew Lincoln) and his crew. While Morgan didn't know who he would be killing, he knew that it would be a "Walking Dead" favorite meeting their end at the end of Lucy, Negan's barbed wire wrapped baseball bat. That scene was a two-night shoot, but the producers weren't about to film who was killed this early in the game as it was of utmost secrecy...although it did slip out before the premiere which we had to report. It wasn't until May 2016, when Season 7 production started (just four weeks after that season horrifying Season 6 cliffhanger) when they were back filming that same bloody night did Morgan learn of the shocking reveal. He knew that he would be getting hate mail and plenty of online hate once it aired. Then 17 million fans watched the Season 7 premiere to witness two of their most loved characters, Abraham and Glenn, get their skulls pounded beyond recognition. The reaction was as expected and then some as many felt the show had gone too far. The scene with Glenn's eye was extremely gruesome, even for "The Walking Dead." The producers said they needed to establish Negan as one hardcore nasty guy that could tear tough guys, Rick Grimes and Daryl Dixon, down to levels they'd never felt before. This one scene divided fans, and they are still split on their feeling of Negan. Some feel he's too cartoonish now, while others can't find themselves wanting to hate Sam and Dean Winchester's father. Some "Supernatural" fans aren't ready to let go of Dean Winchester yet. Ratings have dropped since the premiere episode with some wanting Negan gone, but for that group, Morgan's going to be around for a while yet to keep the carnage going. Producers have said the violence won't be as extreme coming back, but it's not just the violence that makes Negan's actions so uncomfortable. Playing such a polarizing character can be a blessing for the actor who plays him, but it can be mixed. "There are people out there who hate my guts, and I hear from them, too," says Morgan with that knowing laugh in a recent interview. "But overwhelmingly the fans have welcomed me as a part of this weird, dysfunctional family. "The relationship this show has with its fans," he adds, "is unlike anything I've experienced before." Morgan officially began acting in the early 1990's, but he's not forgotten his very first role and the struggle that all actors go through on their way to landing that role that changes your life. "It was in third grade, and it was a fairytale, the guy that falls asleep forever ... I remember I played the character that was asleep the whole time. I was the big leader of the show, mind you. But I spent the whole time lying on the floor asleep. It was awesome. That was first little theater thing in third grade. A friend of mine, Billy Burke, was my roommate in Seattle for a big portion of my life, and he's an actor—he was in all of the Twilight movies, and now he's on something called Zoo—and he was doing a movie in Seattle, I think it was the late '80s, and I was an extra as his best friend. That was my first time on a movie set. I had no intention of being an actor ever. I was an artist—I fancied myself an artist—I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent. And then four years later, I moved to Los Angeles and met a casting director named Eliza [Roberts] and went from there. Then I spent 20 years struggling trying to figure out how the fuck I was going to make a living and feed my dog. And now we're doing okay. Now we're Negan." He's played many memorable characters on tv shows that got fans worked up. John Winchester had so many secrets, some "Supernatural" fans and critics would get rather frustrated trying to figure out exactly what he was about. Morgan is still such a fan favorite that "Supernatural" Executive Producer Andrew Dabb let it be known that John Winchester could return to Sam and Dean's world. “I don’t really worry about that because by the time he comes back, I’m sure [Supernatural] will have been on for 20 seasons at that point, and The Walking Dead will be long over,” he says with a laugh before noting that “Jeffrey’s an amazing actor… He plays such a great bad guy. But at the same time… if you give him really good material, he can go back to being someone we know and love and someone we can empathize with. “I have full faith in him as an actor,” the EP adds, “and I’m excited to see [him return as John] if it ever comes to pass.” Since he's played his share of villains, some people have forgotten that he's also played many good guy roles too. "If you look at my résumé, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being. I've got back-to-back things that are super villainous right now with Desierto and this. I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge. More than anything, for me as an actor, it's about challenging myself and doing as many different things as I can. I don't know that I feel comfortable playing a villain; as a matter of fact I probably don't feel comfortable, which is why I like it so much. It's just an opportunity to try something different. And Negan, in particular, is unlike any character I've ever played. I don't ever look at these guys as villains per se; I always try to figure out, I wouldn't say the justification of them, but look for the reasons that Negan is Negan. I have to understand that, otherwise I don't think it works if I just play him as a bad guy—I think that's pretty one note and it would be boring for you as a viewer, and it wouldn't be that fun for me to play. So I just try to get into that character's skin as much as I can, and understand why he is who he is. Negan is a trip though, man. He's a brutal son of a bitch, but there are also parts about him that I find kind of endearing. We'll see if the audience responds to it. I think that the first episode is going to be rough, and people aren't going to be real fond of me or Negan, and I think as time wears on and you get to know him a little bit more and understand his way of thinking, there could be a shift in that. Maybe they'll love to hate him as opposed to just hating him." His many credits include love-her-and-leave-her freelance gumshoe Jason Crouse on "The Good Wife," a memorable stint on "Supernatural," two seasons as the harried Miami hotel mogul on "Magic City," and - keeping "Grey's Anatomy" devotees sobbing - as Izzie's bedridden lover who was desperately awaiting a heart transplant. Not one of these roles prepared him for "The Walking Dead" fan base. "It's a life-changing experience," says Morgan, who comes across much like you would expect with an easygoing manner and quite the magnetic smile. "I can't walk down the street anymore. I got to look in my rear-view mirror to make sure I'm not being followed home. Now, that's all part of my reality." Morgan was quick to learn that "Walking Dead" family can work as tightly, sometimes ever better than, the CIA when it comes to keeping things under wraps down in the depths of Georgia. "Everything," he marvels, "is shrouded in secrecy. We kind of live in a bubble. I hang out a lot with Reedus—Norman—we spend a lot of time together. Literally, we go to a fucking gas station in the middle of nowhere and within three minutes of us stopping to get gas, a couple of phone calls that people make, and there's 100 people blocking us, and we can't get out. We take pictures with everyone, and I've never seen anything quite like that. That being said, we do live in a bubble, as long as we keep our motorcycle helmets on and go about our business. " Since Morgan knew he was entering a very tight-knit cast that would soon be minus two major ones, he also knew there would be a shift in the dynamic upon his arrival. "Obviously, they're such a tight cast, and we've all heard stories about it and read about it for the last six years—even I had heard it was like that—and they certainly are. I knew that immediately walking in, and knowing what I'm about to do, there was a little bit of separation at first, but it was very brief. I can't tell you how great this cast is as far as bringing me into the fold, regardless of what my character has done and done to this show. They've totally embraced me and been nothing but supportive, on and off camera. Look, we've had some hard times—just as actors it's been hard—and I understand that there's been a great deal of pain for these guys as people. They're losing a friend that's been with them for a long fucking time. So it was a hard time initially, at first especially, and this year we've had some speed bumps as far as that kind of stuff. But I'll tell you, as soon as we say cut, there's lots of hugs going around for everybody, and we've managed to get through it. But it was a little a weird going in initially when I didn't know anybody really. I was careful not to be a dick, I guess. [laughs] Like, "Don't say anything inappropriate, Jeff." Now I can be inappropriate and tell jokes, and it's fine, but I was careful going in, because it was a fragile time for everybody, and I was very aware of it." That one horrific kill scene that Negan strutting and brandishing his bat, "Lucille," as he taunted Grimes and company with "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe": Each character was separately filmed being kill which was to help keep the "real" victim's identity a big secret, according to Morgan. Morgan learned that "The Walking Dead" producers also enjoy the art of misinformation too, "we leaked footage of me killing Maggie," whose quite vibrant and ready to take over. "That's a lot of time and effort to go through to try to save your story. But the cast and crew, they're all used to living in this world. "There's a real sense of family when you go through an experience like this," Morgan says. "It's why the cast is so tight. We put ourselves in this bubble while we're shooting - and while we're NOT shooting. Even now, I have to watch every word I say. I'm still not used to that." Speaking of family, have you felt Norman's pranks yet? [laughs] "No. Little stuff, but that's really the two of them, Andy [Lincoln] and Norman. I drive a motorcycle, and Norman will respect the motorcycle more than anything else. We're more in cahoots than anything else at this point, although I do kind of feel bad for Andy. I feel like I need to get Andy's back and help him get Norman at least once real good." Like many actors coming on the show, Morgan was a huge fan of the "Walking Dead" comics as well so he was well-versed in Negan before he even knew he'd be part of the family. "I'd watched the show for years. It was one of the few shows that I would DVR and pay attention to; I've been working so much the last few years that I don't watch anything very regularly, but that was one of them. I've also been involved in lots of comic book stuff; I've done numerous films based on comic books and TV shows. I remember five years ago when they had written the role of Negan—when [Robert] Kirkman first introduced Negan in the comic books—I was at a Comic-Con actually, I think it was in San Diego, when somebody came up to me and said, "Have you seen Kirkman's new book?" I said, "No," and they said, "There's this character Negan. You should be Negan." Probably three or four months later, I actually did pick up a copy of The Walking Dead comic book, which at that point I hadn't read; I had only followed the show. I picked up the introduction of Negan and thought, "Oh yeah, that would be fun to play." Cut to five years later, I was doing The Good Wife and got a call one night from my agent who said, "The Walking Dead is offering you the role of a villain." I said, "Well, what's his name?" And they were like, "You know, they won't tell us, it's a secret." And I knew immediately—I knew because I watched the show and knew where we were—and I'm like, "It's fucking Negan! And I'm going to fucking do it." [laughs] And really that was it. Then it was just about working that last episode last year into the schedule that I was doing on The Good Wife, and clearing a couple of days so I could go do it. We managed to do that and now here we are." Many fans still don't realize that Negan's backstory is he was a high school teacher and ping-pong coach. "That's right. That changed; Kirkman originally had said he was a used car salesman previous to the zombie apocalypse, and that made sense to me too. Then after I was cast, Kirkman decided he would do a kind of prequel—Negan's life before the apocalypse hit—with a little background on him. He became this PE teacher and ping-pong coach, married to a woman named Lucille, and it gave a good foundation for me to work on. I kind of like the ping-pong coach aspect; it somehow fits, and I don't know how because Negan is a weird character, but it fits." "I find him fascinating," Morgan says. "The most important thing to realize is how smart he is. That's easy to forget, because you see him come on with his bravado and the smart-ass quips. But whatever you're thinking, he's already two steps ahead of you. He's always poking at your rib cage and wearing that grin. Remember those assholes in high school? He's that guy! But on this show, you can't run home to mama. "He's a larger-than-life character," Morgan sums up with pleasure. "Still, at some point, Negan's gonna have to get his head cracked by Rick. I can't say when, or how, or even if I know. But he's gonna HAVE to!" This really makes Morgan light up as he knows it's going to be a killer scene to shoot shrouded in plenty of "Walking Dead" secrecy.

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What Happened When A Secret Bitcoin Key Went Public

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What Happened When A Secret Bitcoin Key Went Public

At least one bitcoin mystery can be checked off our lists.

The long-awaited reveal of the private keys connected to a now-defunct alert system built into bitcoin occurred Monday through an email by two Bitcoin Core developers, Bryan Bishop and Andrew Chow.

In the email, the two wrote that the reason for full disclosure of the bitcoin alert keys was to “mitigate the effects of unknown dissemination and proliferation of the keys.” Further, Bishop and Chow emphasized that these keys would no longer pose risk to the bitcoin network, explaining that “the bitcoin alert system has been completely retired.”

Retired or not, social media kicked into overdrive once news about this bitcoin secret having finally gone public caught wind.

Part of the chatter was for Bishop himself, who gave a talk the following day after releasing the private keys at a conference in Portugal. He spoke about the vulnerabilities of the retired alert system and why the project to get rid of the whole system started back in 2016.

‘The Disclosure Is OK’

While the project started in 2016, one of the reasons behind why the keys stayed private until now was due to the danger full disclosure could pose to cryptocurrencies that still use an older version of the bitcoin code.

However, as explained by Pavol Rusnak, CTO of SatoshiLabs, the danger is presently limited to only one cryptocurrency, according to a script he ran checking the “sources of all altcoins on GitHub” and finding “only one that still has the alert key present.”

As such, for Bishop, his confirmation of the bitcoin alert system being sufficiently “dead” is reason enough for why “the disclosure is OK” as he explained in a rather exasperated tweet.

But alert systems, in general, aren’t all dead.

In fact, as Bishop and Chow say in their email, developers of cryptocurrencies wishing to use something like the bitcoin alert system but without the same vulnerabilities of private alert keys being hijacked can indeed implement “a few very simple fixes,”

Namely, developers have the option of downloading a recommended patch to “safeguard nodes from the aforementioned issues” accessible on the popular code-sharing website, GitHub.

While some of the vulnerabilities caused by the bitcoin alert system are addressed through this code update, certain vulnerabilities to developers could only be mitigated by publicizing the private alert keys, which is why to one user, the full disclosure was a “final step” in removing the whole bitcoin alert system once and for all.

Power in secrecy

Part of the reason for why full disclosure was necessary came down to the secrecy shrouding the original list of people and organizations who held possession of these private keys in the first place.

Indeed, any secret possession of the key would, in theory, open the risk of broadcasting false messages to nodes across the network.

In a tweet posted on June 14, Bishop wrote a message coded in one of the bitcoin alert key signatures to challenge Craig Wright to write a response in the same way, if he indeed had knowledge of this private information only known to a select few at the time.

Despite the open invitation to contradict his claim, Craig Wright did not respond, much to the dismay of some on Twitter.

In sum, “by broadcasting the values to make them available to everyone, the value of the keys is intended to be eliminated, since now everyone could feasibly sign messages, the value of the signed messages becomes zero,” Bishop and Chow wrote.

Or, as one observer noted on social media, possession of the alert keys makes everyone Satoshi – sort of.

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