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walkingshadow) wrote2005-02-06 11:56 pm
walkingshadow) wrote2005-02-06 11:56 pm
even trained killers have their moral quirks
Discussion of THE ARCHER CHAPTER 36 can begin below. I'll start.
*FLAILS*
The Mexican standoff! Okay, I totally jumped out of my chair and flailed around. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Karl narrating it like a museum tour guide made me snort out loud. And ohhh, Orlando on a hair-trigger, about to go BAM. The "come to Jesus meeting" was hilarious.
Ahaha employee roster! This is what we've been saying.
Group sex is great, but revelations are AWESOME. I am disgustingly pleased with myself and how much I guessed right: Eric knew Viggo was the Archer (hence the conversation in Chapter 27); the Purge wasn't a mistake; there's more than one Hunter and they cannibalize the ranks of the Organization; Viggo was Sean's mark; and somebody else blew up the cabin. Seriously, Sean couldn't have blown up the cabin, because there would have been no reason after that for him not to shoot Karl and Eric when they came around the corner; that is, if Sean wanted people to be dead, they would be dead. WHO BLEW UP THE CABIN?
Wasn't it a bit dense of Viggo not to notice that eight of the nine agents who were killed in the Great Purging Disaster were his agents who'd been part of the raid, plus the fact that he himself was marked as a target before the Great Stand-Down? Also: who was the one mark who killed his Hunter? Ooh . . .
I still don't know where Orlando got Prague from (Eric definitely says Tokyo in Chapter 3). And I'm still waiting to find out what Dave and Dom are hiding: in Chapter 24 when Viggo pays the prisoners a visit, Orlando says, "Have you come to make me feel like shit too?" and Viggo asks Dave if someone else had been in there—and Dave says no, that Orlando had been hallucinating: "Said something about pinecones and purple crayons and talked to someone named Piglet. He’s cracked," Dave explained. But then at the table after Viggo comes out of the room, Dom says he had been in there: "I checked on them too," Dominic grumbled. "He was still drugged when I went in there" (Chapter 25).* Talking about Piglet while Dom was there would make sense, so—was Dom really there? If not, why did he lie; and if so, why did Dave lie?
[ETA]:
Another point somebody brought up was that Dave isn't exactly sharing with his boss. Like, the fact that Sean was a Hunter (that there was more than one Hunter, and that their job was to, you know, kill the Archer and his team) would have been some good information for Viggo to have. Of course, Dave could be the mark who killed his Hunter in the Great Purging Fiasco. He could be the triple-crosser we've all been searching for! Where are my Venn diagrams?!
* in-text citation whaaaat?
*FLAILS*
The Mexican standoff! Okay, I totally jumped out of my chair and flailed around. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Karl narrating it like a museum tour guide made me snort out loud. And ohhh, Orlando on a hair-trigger, about to go BAM. The "come to Jesus meeting" was hilarious.
Ahaha employee roster! This is what we've been saying.
Group sex is great, but revelations are AWESOME. I am disgustingly pleased with myself and how much I guessed right: Eric knew Viggo was the Archer (hence the conversation in Chapter 27); the Purge wasn't a mistake; there's more than one Hunter and they cannibalize the ranks of the Organization; Viggo was Sean's mark; and somebody else blew up the cabin. Seriously, Sean couldn't have blown up the cabin, because there would have been no reason after that for him not to shoot Karl and Eric when they came around the corner; that is, if Sean wanted people to be dead, they would be dead. WHO BLEW UP THE CABIN?
Wasn't it a bit dense of Viggo not to notice that eight of the nine agents who were killed in the Great Purging Disaster were his agents who'd been part of the raid, plus the fact that he himself was marked as a target before the Great Stand-Down? Also: who was the one mark who killed his Hunter? Ooh . . .
I still don't know where Orlando got Prague from (Eric definitely says Tokyo in Chapter 3). And I'm still waiting to find out what Dave and Dom are hiding: in Chapter 24 when Viggo pays the prisoners a visit, Orlando says, "Have you come to make me feel like shit too?" and Viggo asks Dave if someone else had been in there—and Dave says no, that Orlando had been hallucinating: "Said something about pinecones and purple crayons and talked to someone named Piglet. He’s cracked," Dave explained. But then at the table after Viggo comes out of the room, Dom says he had been in there: "I checked on them too," Dominic grumbled. "He was still drugged when I went in there" (Chapter 25).* Talking about Piglet while Dom was there would make sense, so—was Dom really there? If not, why did he lie; and if so, why did Dave lie?
[ETA]:
"I don’t think any of us really took not of the fact that the two of you had . . . history," Karl said softly, suddenly understanding Dave and Orlando's actions better. "He saved your life, yeah? And in turn you tried to save his."
Dave nodded slowly. "I thought Sean was trying to kill him. If I'd known the whole story I . . . well I’m not sure what I would have done. Would've still gotten him out of that square for sure, but . . . "
"Why would Sean try to kill him?" Dominic asked distractedly as he poked at the rug again.
Karl looked over in time to see Dave’s jaw clench. "I don’t know the bloke," he said in a tight voice. "But when Orli forced me to leave him with all of you, Sean had just tied us both up and we were awaiting our executions, yeah? That seems a pretty good reason not to trust him to me."
"Right," Dominic said softly, sounding slightly chastised. "Forgot about that."
"Convenient, isn’t it?" Dave said in a strange voice. "Being able to forget what you don't like remembering."
Karl looked at them both closely as he drove. What the hell had that been about?
-Chapter 35
Viggo watched the others shuffle out, and he took special notice of the long, tense look Dave and Dominic shared before Dave nodded to them both and ducked out of the room. What the hell was that about?
-Chapter 36
Another point somebody brought up was that Dave isn't exactly sharing with his boss. Like, the fact that Sean was a Hunter (that there was more than one Hunter, and that their job was to, you know, kill the Archer and his team) would have been some good information for Viggo to have. Of course, Dave could be the mark who killed his Hunter in the Great Purging Fiasco. He could be the triple-crosser we've all been searching for! Where are my Venn diagrams?!
* in-text citation whaaaat?