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Dun-dun-Daaaa!
So Scott is Brice's half brother...
Or was.
That gives the conversation Redmond and Scott had before that fateful trip, a whole new slant.
Good to see Sam is healing up nicely. Able to 'shag a sheep' for an hour.
Ok.. so what did we learn, besides Sam is well endowed?
Well Sam learned that there were two look alike reynards at the Dead Cow...
And both went missing at the same time.
But still major questions remain.
The DNA proved that the skinned reynard was Redmond's son, but which one?
Tony didn't kill Brice, or at least not at the river.
So who was the older reynard body they found there.
And what the heck it that crazy 'gator up to?

Vandergraf is a right bastard, isn't he? He sends his illegitimate son in as a decoy for his legitimate one. I had thought sacrificing his employee Scott to save his son Brice was pretty cold. How much colder that he was also getting rid of an embarrassment, the evidence of a past mistake, and a possible source for blackmail.

I have to say, though, that Sam would have to admire the efficiency of it. Although I'm not sure how healthy it is to defeat Sam in this way. The guy's got professional pride, you know. And, as he says, once you start a job, you finish it.

Neat work that Scott was Vandergraf's son, Mulefoot. Before I was thinking it was a little too handy that Vandergraf had an identical copy of Brice around, ready to take the fall. But sleazeball that he is, of COURSE he has a copy of Brice handy. Maybe more than one. It fits so well that I'm shaking my head at the perfection of it, and at my naivity for not having seen it at once. OF COURSE he would have a Scott or two wandering around. Geez. I should have known that!

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I remember when Brice's half-brother first spotted him in that sleazy bar. He said something like "There you are. I'd recognize the back of your head anywhere."

I had a feeling then there was a reason why he'd be more familiar with the back of Brice's head than with his face And now that we know for certain they are related to one another? Kinky.

"Seen one reynard, seen 'em all". Can't tell the players without a scorecard - to Carol they're all a knot and some panting and gone in thirty minutes....... Sam has staying power though. The alligater best not be subscribing to any new magazines.

--lj

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Sam mentioned that they'd 'talked' previously, how many times do you think he and Carol met up? Was it because of Brice, or was it because of Mr. Vandergraf? I'm leaning toward the former... Brice did have a lot of girls on his phone if you recall...

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Poor Sam,...he looks so sad inside, somewhat pathetic,...sitting there on the bed....cute little pot-belly, though... Heh!

And look at Carol sitting there flaunting her nakedness in front of him... Does she have any clue that he hates doing this with her? Some of her behaviors are starting to make me wonder...

What a slüt ("sloot",....<snicker>)!!!

Anyway,...great page! Nicely done! And quite the ominous portent, what with the comment about always finishing a job... Part of me wants Sam to let Bryce live, even if he finds him... The real one that needs killin', as far as I'm concerned, is dick-head-daddy Vandergraf...

Jadugara ^_^

I always appreciated how the people with the real power were the bureaucrats. I mean, Vandergraff might be some kind of evil genius as it were, but how easy would it be for Carol to take him down?

She seems like the kind to keep notes. Lots of notes.

Now more than ever I wonder about how the species of the characters are fitting in with their personalities. Surely, by species, they have specific traits that are more often than not common between all members of that species.

Vandergraff and his habit of sampling the company staff... the proverbial fox in the henhouse? Mulefoot's gruff, boarish demeanor? Sam's reclusive, badgery attitude? I think there are elements there.

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I think that Carol is probably craftier than many of the characters give her credit for.

I think she's intelligent enough to know that she's putting Sam through the motions, and she probably gets off on that just as much as she does 'sleeping with the enemy'. I wouldn't be surprised at all if she manages to manipulate the Vandergraff situation to her advantage somehow, or if she's possibly a bigger player in all of the happenings than others know. Maybe she's a sort of 'double agent'? All conjecture of course, but it is fun to think about anyhow.

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