Topher Lydon

Pretty much. Gotta have someone tell Brick something.

yeah yeah yeah.... well ... @#$@#$ you ok maybe you deserved one for all you lot have been through this past year.

Thanks, I needed it to feel earned. The bullet in the last chapter was the easy part. Now comes Andrew learning to deal with the reality of who he is now. Will's words hit me rather hard as I re-read them just now. I'll keep a light on for you. He always does.

Andrew was pushed farther to the thin ice, which is somewhere you don't want him. He'll fight like hell once he's there.

Jon Harding has zero moral objection to this, Denton ordered his son beaten, destroyed his future with the Marines. And used Brad to do it, the same Brad that landed his other son Joey (albeit Joey was an idiot) in jail. No no, Jon's opinion is squarely rooted in Denton got what he was owed.

Where he belongs

Chapter 16: The Iron Larder The silence that followed the gunshot was not the silence of the woods. It was a dense, airless vacuum that seemed to radiate from the cooling muzzle of the Beretta, a bubble of null-space that swallowed the wind’s moan and the creak of settling metal. Andrew sat on the oil-stained gravel of the alleyway, his back against the rusted school bus, watching the steam rise from Denton Jensen’s body in slender, spectral ribbons that vanished into the cold. The man who

Weeeeeeeeeeeee

I am restructuring the chapters for Carter's Asset today. Splitting them into more manageable chunks so you're not dealing with 10000 word chapters a day I got carried away... And since there is a strong theme of Biblical corruption, or of the Devil quoting scripture. Some themes came up that fit REALLY well that I wanted to share: For Marcus Webb's "ministry": "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." — 2 Timothy 3:5 For the Merrick family dynamic: "The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge." — Ezekiel 18:2 For Jason's shame spiral: "For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing." — Romans 7:18 For Andrew's dual life: "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other." — Matthew 6:24 For the final homecoming: "And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him." — Luke 15:20

greasy meat. Full of gristle from clenching too long.

I needed it to feel like a violation. It's the only way that Theo would allow Elias to put a badge back on. I mean Theo has a point, Elias is a mess, he's suffering long term injuries down his left side. His hip from the final battle with Cobb, the side where he was shot by Rourke, and the hand burned in the wagon fire. He's not the rubber ball of doom that he was in the last one. Strapping on a gun, pinning on a badge would have real consequences that Theo is terrified of. Elias isn't known for going easy on himself when he's fighting one of his wars. So the justification had to be visceral.

For those that don't know, the Dominion Police along with the North West Mounted Police merged to become the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. We're a little early for Red Serge jackets and campaign hats. But they still "Always got their man"

Good morning folks Things are not right, down on the farm. And sanctuaries can be stolen by the determined. However Elias Sawyer knows what he needs to do:

Chapter 4: The Breaking Point The Harding Farm. Early February, 1885. The silence before dawn wasn't peaceful; it was heavy. A physical weight, pressing down on the farmhouse roof like a wet wool blanket, muffling the world. It was the kind of quiet that felt staged, a held breath before a scream. The cold had teeth this morning, biting through the chinks in the log walls, a dry, predatory cold that sought the marrow. Elias Sawyer sat in the kitchen, a stoneware cup of cold

Unfortunately Enrico suffers from the age old "Had he done nothing..." His plan backfires on him, badly

Their story needed just a bit more to be complete

Denton's orders -> West's Assault -> Jason's testimony -> Brad's imprisonment -> Jason's beating -> Brad's confession -> Denton's Freedom There is a certain pig farmer with his own score to settle with Denton Jensen.

Gotta keep ya guessin'. Some people still due what's coming to them. Everyone gets their due in this one.

Tarquin did it

It was, also I believe Charles Levesque ALSO recommended the spot for an ambush as well. It's is a deadzone, no cell signal, no radio signal. Merrick knew Andrew was at the event at the house. Denton's been patiently waiting weeks for an opportunity at Andrew, it's implied that Andrew has wandered right into the trap this particular time, he was distracted, thinking about what he saw at Merrick Manor. Denton getting lucky, or Hank was following him and called ahead. Both are possible.

Will and Andrew eventually develop an agreement with their lives. The "Don't ask" Rule, wherein: Will will never ask Andrew a question that would put Andrew in a position to lie to him. It works for them.... till it inevitably doesn't. There is only so long that two men can lie by omission to each other. Peter, wisely, considers such a rule Bullshit. This the West/Peter confront, while Andrew/Will avoid trope that defines the two core relationships of all these books.

foundational in fact