Y’know, I really do believe those guys are sorry for what they did.
I DON’T, however, believe McB has completely forgiven them.
Guess we’ll wait and see.
Given McBell’s deal with includes her kicking them in the genitals hard enough to retroactively sterilize their grandparents, no, she hasn’t forgiven them.
Imo Sorry doesn’t mean much coming from them. They can be as sorry as they want, but I think they probably still would have done the same thing even if she hadn’t given them permission this time.
Maybe this time she can try to claim she has nothing to do with them anymore and just wanted so little to do with them anymore that she didn’t notice they were up to something. Everyone at that trial knows she was the ultimate criminal mastermind – with a cigar and everything! – so who would think they could pull a heist independently of her? Certainly not her! Why, they’re nothing without her! Nothing!
To be fair to Chief Dougherty, crawling through vents is not actually part of his job.
To continue being fair to Chief Dougherty, no one asked him to crawl through a vent. He heard the auction was being robbed, made a bunch of assumptions, and decided to play John McClane. Badly.
Given the mayor’s consistently broad (and capricious) interpretation of “official duties,” I think if the police chief tries to do something for what he considers to be directly police-related reasons, it’s fair to consider that task a self-appointed part of the job, at least for purposes of judging him on doing it well or not.
OK, that DOES it! Why the heck is McBell acting so weird?! Now I am forced, FORCED I say, to reread the whole chapter! (What a chore…!)
…
Having done that, I humbly conclude that I omitted important parts of the story by focusing on the light banter and (impeccable) jokes. My revelations are:
– It is still the same day as it was at the beginning of this chapter!
– Throughout the day McBell has been in all sorts of internal conflicts: Being a clown suddenly seems questionable: She is called a “tool” by two of her most valued ones (Morgan and Eliza) and instills panic and fear in not only a young girl, but also her mother just by being in uniform.
– McBell is in mortal fear of the mime. She literally tells Morgan this and about her having nightmares. Despite her legendary prowess in “psychology”, she doesn’t realise that Morgan’s strong reaction and grief is not just about her, McBell, but also about Morgans sister.
So I do understand the conflict, but why should she take the fall if the heist goes sideways? Does she feel safer from the mime in prison? Is she veering from the Corps in order to protect them in the event of a mime-attack?
I think that’s also a deep sense of inadequacy. From Fuschia’s “The corps was my dream, it’s only your punishment” (which goes super deep. She really was a burglar and her accepting to get back to the thieves who betrayed her is probably making her question if she isn’t still that) to the fact that the Corps appears to get corrupted at the same time McBell becomes a clown, to her trauma with the mime that clashes with her image of herself as somebody very detached from everything.
There’s this idea that staying with the clowns is
1) not who she truly is/not what she deserves,
2) changing her into just “one of them”, including letting emotions resurface and being used as a tool by the people in power, and
3) making the corps itself worse.
She might think that staying in prison is both better for her and what she deserves, and thus let herself go and “detach” herself again from everything, coming back to that life of loneliness that she knew before and that she just broke out of.
I think that’s also a deep sense of inadequacy. From Fuschia’s “The corps was my dream, it’s only your punishment” (which goes super deep. She really was a burglar and her accepting to get back to the thieves who betrayed her is probably making her question if she isn’t still that) to the fact that the Corps appears to get corrupted at the same time McBell becomes a clown, to her trauma with the mime that clashes with her image of herself as somebody very detached from everything.
There’s this idea that staying with the clowns is
1) not who she truly is/not what she deserves,
2) changing her into just “one of them”, including letting emotions resurface and being used as a tool by the people in power, and
3) making the corps itself worse.
She might think that staying in prison is both better for her and what she deserves, and thus let herself go and “detach” herself again from everything, coming back to that life of loneliness that she knew before and that she just broke out of.
I’ve already suspected a long time ago that Mcbell was planning to double cross them as revenge, and probably planning on exposing the elite to the public as well too boot.
a deliberately vague mcbell to ring in the new year!
IS she?
Y’know, I really do believe those guys are sorry for what they did.
I DON’T, however, believe McB has completely forgiven them.
Guess we’ll wait and see.
Given McBell’s deal with includes her kicking them in the genitals hard enough to retroactively sterilize their grandparents, no, she hasn’t forgiven them.
Imo Sorry doesn’t mean much coming from them. They can be as sorry as they want, but I think they probably still would have done the same thing even if she hadn’t given them permission this time.
Poor Henrick has started to hallucinate clowns.
Would McBell truly throw away all that hard work she went through to save her friends from danger and take the fall for them…again ?
Maybe this time she can try to claim she has nothing to do with them anymore and just wanted so little to do with them anymore that she didn’t notice they were up to something. Everyone at that trial knows she was the ultimate criminal mastermind – with a cigar and everything! – so who would think they could pull a heist independently of her? Certainly not her! Why, they’re nothing without her! Nothing!
To be fair to Chief Dougherty, crawling through vents is not actually part of his job.
To continue being fair to Chief Dougherty, no one asked him to crawl through a vent. He heard the auction was being robbed, made a bunch of assumptions, and decided to play John McClane. Badly.
Given the mayor’s consistently broad (and capricious) interpretation of “official duties,” I think if the police chief tries to do something for what he considers to be directly police-related reasons, it’s fair to consider that task a self-appointed part of the job, at least for purposes of judging him on doing it well or not.
OK, that DOES it! Why the heck is McBell acting so weird?! Now I am forced, FORCED I say, to reread the whole chapter! (What a chore…!)
…
Having done that, I humbly conclude that I omitted important parts of the story by focusing on the light banter and (impeccable) jokes. My revelations are:
– It is still the same day as it was at the beginning of this chapter!
– Throughout the day McBell has been in all sorts of internal conflicts: Being a clown suddenly seems questionable: She is called a “tool” by two of her most valued ones (Morgan and Eliza) and instills panic and fear in not only a young girl, but also her mother just by being in uniform.
– McBell is in mortal fear of the mime. She literally tells Morgan this and about her having nightmares. Despite her legendary prowess in “psychology”, she doesn’t realise that Morgan’s strong reaction and grief is not just about her, McBell, but also about Morgans sister.
So I do understand the conflict, but why should she take the fall if the heist goes sideways? Does she feel safer from the mime in prison? Is she veering from the Corps in order to protect them in the event of a mime-attack?
HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!
I think that’s also a deep sense of inadequacy. From Fuschia’s “The corps was my dream, it’s only your punishment” (which goes super deep. She really was a burglar and her accepting to get back to the thieves who betrayed her is probably making her question if she isn’t still that) to the fact that the Corps appears to get corrupted at the same time McBell becomes a clown, to her trauma with the mime that clashes with her image of herself as somebody very detached from everything.
There’s this idea that staying with the clowns is
1) not who she truly is/not what she deserves,
2) changing her into just “one of them”, including letting emotions resurface and being used as a tool by the people in power, and
3) making the corps itself worse.
She might think that staying in prison is both better for her and what she deserves, and thus let herself go and “detach” herself again from everything, coming back to that life of loneliness that she knew before and that she just broke out of.
I think that’s also a deep sense of inadequacy. From Fuschia’s “The corps was my dream, it’s only your punishment” (which goes super deep. She really was a burglar and her accepting to get back to the thieves who betrayed her is probably making her question if she isn’t still that) to the fact that the Corps appears to get corrupted at the same time McBell becomes a clown, to her trauma with the mime that clashes with her image of herself as somebody very detached from everything.
There’s this idea that staying with the clowns is
1) not who she truly is/not what she deserves,
2) changing her into just “one of them”, including letting emotions resurface and being used as a tool by the people in power, and
3) making the corps itself worse.
She might think that staying in prison is both better for her and what she deserves, and thus let herself go and “detach” herself again from everything, coming back to that life of loneliness that she knew before and that she just broke out of.
I’ve already suspected a long time ago that Mcbell was planning to double cross them as revenge, and probably planning on exposing the elite to the public as well too boot.
If this is the quality of the police, no wonder they got replaced with literal clowns
Chief Doughy turned into a loaf! Chief Doughy is clearly part cat.