Philippe

Death by atomic blast…of paprika

His handling fee can go to that off shore account that CSIS set up for him! 😂 payback’s a bitch. Either announce to the world and still crash markets or just leave my standard fee alone!

REN! Yes 🙌🏿

Yeah, that’s what I’ve been thinking. The intent may have been that it be a longer, stronger case of committed, but it seemed one of shorter, mutual, comfort , to me.

I thought the same, but then I wondered if Kris hasn’t already decided but he needs to know what Dean can commit to; in other words, don’t be Dean escape, be his reason.

Yet but sometimes a reboot works better than a restart; fresh place, fresh mindset, they work better together…until you visit home. 😆

Despite my comment several chapters back, I don’t have a good feeling about Adam also being brought into the safe haven for the boys. There’s just too much unknown about Martin’s murderer and motives. Yes, it like like the art teacher is a sure thing….but is he. Without something stronger to go on or a confession we don’t know if he is possibly a copy-cat or the real thing. Wow, it’s heartbreaking to learn the details of the attack from these forever traumatized young boys, now men. It’s even worse knowing that the headmaster not only covered it up, but his handling a suspected weapon, at the scene of that vicious sexual assault, seems beyond protective of the school…himself, family, other motivations? The expanded search of the teacher’s previous work and life experience will hopefully help narrow the hunt and also allow any previously unlinked murders be brought to light; if dealing with an even longer active serial killer spree. Again we have Cory, whom now looks a lot like Rick…argh, it doesn’t seem pure coincidence either that we now have another interaction that could bring the murderer full circle. By why targeting Rick vs Cory or others? Just like the killings not being known until Rick’s mysterious requested assignment, what and how exactly did Adam come into the picture? His question of “do you really feel this way” somehow strikes my as strange and somewhat testing manipulation. Admittedly it’s pure speculation at this point, but the safe haven is for the primary purpose of their protection, and that outweighs the social benefits at the juncture. There also seems to be some looming suspense surrounding those files that Rick has yet to look at…all as we invite Adam into the haven.

Damn

Go Joe!

Off to rescue their idiots, requiring them too to be thought idiots, but my bet is… Supernatural things are going to happen as the OCD order melds with their-chaos geniuses.

It sucks in the final moments, when you realize after all the team BS that we never leave one of our own behind, that the whole plan never included your survival…but your callous sacrifice. Beyond that though, is how many terrorist buy into being sacrificed when the person selling that great martyrdom philosophy never feels compelled themselves.

That Carol shit is the bomb

As the lights dim.

One neighbor while I was growing up, would ask mom for a batch of biscuits. His wife had bake some and offer him one on the way to work…was a police officer. He try the bite it and immediately threw it out across the street. That biscuit hit the far side bank of the ditch…to then have a section of that bank shear off falling into the ditch. He told my dad, “he’ll I could take those to the firing range for target practice.”

It’s just terribly unfortunate that with what we know, the person identified as Andrew Carter began the extortion/blackmail of Brian. It paints a very different character than the one we’ve been rooting for in the Carter Books. Needless to say I expressed that surprise, disappointment, and anger in the final chapter of this previous book. Hard to believe Andrew Carter would handle youth that share ages with his own family, with Alex even living with them while he was missing, visiting Father in LA. You’re playing with perspectives of the character of the characters big time.

Bootlegged ! Acceptable only for the sake of El Coyote.

He still a believer in his square ruler

This is no way to win friends, nor to keep boyfriends.

Where is the 🤦‍♂️ emoji? Damn boy, haven’t you learned to talk about serious shit before it happens?

Long have the undisturbed ASSUMED they had no threats, now there is still resistance to have duplicity, reserves, and hardening of critical and basic civilian infrastructure. Too many single point of failure items have been allowed to exists as the reserves or excess of yesteryear have been trimmed to absolute minimum, just in time, delivery schedules. Everyone wants our society to be subjugated to AI, yet beyond bad actors even within those network systems and architecture, an electrical outage can cause chain reactions or time outs as the servers being queried or absent from the party. Without those next gen AI, many businesses including retail will be unable to conduct business. I guess the gas station clerk doesn’t really have to worry that their register does work as the pipelines won’t be delivering gas for long anyway.

Sorry guys, rant complete, but I served 20 years in the military. I expected honesty and I gave it like it was. Use the legal channels or address the terrorist, but don’t break the trust of innocents.

I love the story and I’m not dissuaded by this latest chapter, but I’m not sold that for Brian’s part that he should ever be subjected to such manipulation; good cop, bad cop…or trying to be good cop and the bad cop. It’s extortion and blackmail for crimes unknown to him and it just doesn’t fit what I’d expect from an organization to corruptedly press a minor into confession, service, or even drum up charges against his family to do so. His vision of trusting his own government would be forever tainted. As an 18yo I was blatantly issued a ticket for speeding for which I wasn’t doing. I had tickets in the past but this one was blatantly wrong. I went to court in the next county to challenge it, the officer didn’t show but the judge didn’t dismiss it, he continued it. So again I had to go back while missing another day of my work and college schedule. The following court date was again a no show until the judge said he would give the officer 15 more minutes. The officer, the first black state trooper in the state finally showed with only a. Opulent of minutes to spare. The impartial judge near tumbled from the bench h to shake his hand and meet his acquaintance. The officer then gave a story that put me going west vs east, at a mile marker miles from my ticket location, with other misrepresentations involved. The judge listened to my rebuttal of facts as even the ticket showed in record. Yet, he looked at the officer then at me…and pronounced guilty. At my age I was absolutely shocked. I went home extremely pissed and with a total loss of trust in the police and the system. I near immediately bought a new gadget that was showing promise. It was an early version of the new radar detectors. I actually drove above speed limits more frequently and less concern of just how much…it was what I felt reasonable and safe, damn the police and court as they had shown I would get a ticket whether guilty or not; so it was me against the corrupt. Two years later I was held up at gun point at my convenience store job. I had locked the door and when the cops showed up I refused them entry until the fingerprint specialist outdoor be briefed through the window…even then refusing entry to any others until they finished and cleared them. Anyone caught on foot in the area was loaded in patrol cars and bought to stand in the parking lot for me to identify…the perps were not there, but what it they had been. They would have been given free access to reenforce their recall of me. It certainly didn’t protect me. I did go to their offices to spend hours going thru books of mugshots…yes, before the common desktops and internet. I spent the time going thru confiscated firearms trying to identify the actual weapons used or at least one like it to refine the report. I stayed active to push the detectives to find those perps. They did work with me, but otherwise I don’t have confidence that they would have. Three months later the perps were nailed by…their fingerprints I had preserved and insisted on and with the mugshots I had finally found that matched theirs when the two county agencies collaborated. Mostly again, because I pushed the system to work honestly and diligently. Yet to this day, I despise radar traps and the way police give out tickets for speeding at angles of which it could be one of three vehicles, yet they act as if it’s absolute. They hardly enforce other rules of the road, blinkers, loud mufflers, improper headlights adjustments and/or use of fog/hunting light in conjunction with headlights (yes, illegal in many states) but speeding is priority one. So here at Christmas many houses will be luted in the same neighborhoods and cars at shopping centers broken into, but rest assured that you’ll probably pass a radar trap or possibly get a ticket on the way to your broken into home; all in this holiday season as that’s their only focus…speeding, it contributes to the Christmas/New Years parties. 🤦‍♂️ Police can be great, but it takes honesty and leadership. So for nearly 50 years since that fateful day, I will speed, I will alert opposite traffic of a trap, not because I’m encouraging it, but because some like me may get a ticket that not even their own. Patrol the roads guys, clock the idiots doing things illegal on your dash cam or speeding right in front of you…there’s plenty of idiots volunteers doing dangerous stuff, but stop sitting there in known trap areas just collecting a tax payer paycheck expecting those dangerous drivers to come to you.

The interaction remains the same, Brian is being blackmailed and it’s being done with extreme, cameras off, prejudice against a minor without supervision or counsel. That’s war and not what this situation justifies. Brian being extorted or pressed into service involuntarily is wrong. To level with him, show him the track record of charges and activities, allow him to decide his destiny or cooperation.