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Coming Tuesday, July 9th! *

* It might be late. Right now, I'm in Florence, Italy (yeah, I know, rough life), and I'm scheduled to fly back to San Francisco tomorrow. However, the two main arrival runaways at SFO are closed right now due to the Asiana crash, and if they're not back open... well, my travel plans may be a bit fluid. It'll be up as soon as it can be!

Drink lots of Grappa while you wait!  Have a great flight.

Safe Travel.

So, this is probably the meeting that takes place after they finish loading the first part of their arsenal.  Of them all, I'd have said that only Jacqui struck me as someone who would be familiar with firearms--clearly, I was mistaken.;)

If Danis father were in the Royal Canadian air force, he would at the very least be familiar with whatever sidearm officers wear while deployed, and Mal is from the deep south where firearm ownership just might be valued more than freedom of speech or um logic, so she could have experience as well.  

Being a military brat or a Southern belle doesn't guarantee familiarity with firearms.  I suppose that does give us a sliver of a possibility for Dani and Mal though.

Okay, having seen this, four questions leap to mind.

1. Why is htere a question mark at the end of Dani's greeting to Raven?  Does she not recognize her?  Has the stress of the evening begun to tell on our favorite barista?

2. Who's Mallory going to ask?  Rain?  If not Rain, then who?

3. Why does Jacqui assume that Sawyer already knows about this?  How many side businesses does he have?

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4. Why is Rain the only one to flip out about the guns...and where did they come from?  Late night Walmart run?

I like how determined both Jacqui and Mallory are in this sequence.  Keeping perspective while in a crisis is kind of hot, especially in women like that.

I especially like the choice of musical quote - both for its appropriateness to the situation, but also because these are pretty clearly lovers in a dangerous time.  Also, the next line of the song makes me hopeful that the next issue might bring a bit of a respite from the grim determination of everyone here, even though I'm (as usual) fascinated with the plot.

Thanks to google we find out that the Sig is what the Canadian air force uses as a pistol.  Though i'm
guessing they don't let you keep guns when you leave.

lovers in a dangerous time sung originally by Bruce Cockburn (Yes his real name.)
Great song.

As for Sawyer, he probably has an in with every shady car dealer & chop shop in town (all three of them!)  It is a pretty small town.  Someone will have talked & Sawyer is the one to find out.  Its either that or ask someones mother at the salon.  They always have the best gossip.

Dunno about the SIG, but you definitely cannot find Holland & Holland guns at WalMart.

Pronounced, incidentally, "Coe-burn".  As a good Canadian, I knew how to pronounce his name well before I ever saw it spelled out.  One forgets to 'see' the component parts phonetically after a while.

Also:  bad idea to upset the man.  One of his best known songs is "If I Had a Rocket Launcher".

Bad joke.  I know that they do sell guns and ammo at Walmart..and I didn't see a guns and ammo outlet anywhere on the Kearsage main drag.  I know that they can be as hardy up north as down south, but I had no idea where they could have bought guns that quickly given where they were.  None of the residents of the SJI appeared to have a designated gun locker or gun drawer in any of their rooms before this, and I gather these aren't all Jacqui's personal weapons cache, so what gives?

More importantly, who has The Watch now, and does it still work?

Say "Hello, Raven?" with appropriate rising inflection and considering the context of someone just walking into a room and bursting into hysterics, and I think it will become clear. :)

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Thinking about this further, I'm not sure it is.  They have in their possession a remarkably powerful device whose power is known to them (even if they don't entirely know how to use it).  They are discovering that Dani is way more screwed up than they thought, with an unknown past, and is terrified of the watch being used on her again.  A mysterious figure in their lives has warned them that something bad is coming and they have to prepare for it.  On a deserted road, in the dark, an unknown individual or individuals tried to murder at least one of them, and clearly would have succeeded but for Erin's intervention.  They also have come into contact with at least one evil mind controller, Derek, who, they were lucky to find out, was an idiot.

In short, they know something very bad is going on, but don't know the extent of it, or the players they're up against.

If you put these elements together, I think they're justified in going into armed camp mode.

Edited to add: in 203, are we going to be dazzled by the beauty of it all?  Or is Erin going to kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight?  (Seems like something she'd be good at doing.)

Dani coming within a couple seconds of getting murdered warrants a strong defensive reaction, but I'd have thought a spectacular security system and mace and tasers for each of the girls would have covered it.  It appears the first cohort thought about which gun they preferred

"shotgun, handgun, or semi-automatic?"

I suppose I should be relieved no one has a long-gun yet.  Maybe that's Adrian's specialty.

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