So what do we do now?
on January 3, 2019 at 1:01 amHrm. I forget what I was planning here. The implication is that Bart O’Ryan let them go and didn’t press charges on Joyce. (Assuming that he was the only one who would bother to prosecute.) I guess he was satisfied with shutting down SEMME and ruining its reputation? I mean, I guess that’s fine. Maybe I thought that narratively confirmed that he was being petty, and thus a villain, but, like, Joyce doesn’t have to go to jail now, she’s just out of a job, so that seems pretty benevolent-towards-our-heroes to me.
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Maybe bc it sounds pretty FAKE NEWSy! “SEMME WOMAN KILLS OWN CLONE WHO HAD NO PROOF OF EVER EXISTING OTHER THAN AN EASILY FAKED PAPER”
…uh, it got them to stop Power Booster Rodding? idk
Where is that thing right now, anyway?
Probably in Semme’s storage or got confiscated by the government due to Semme shutting down.
“At least up through November, then it’s $100 from the whole readership per strip, followed by a long period of individual subscriptions”
The way I read it, O’Ryan used the Joyce story to be able to shut down SEMMF, but he didn’t actually care about her. The only reason she was in his office was to yell at him; if she hadn’t shown up, he wouldn’t have bothered with anything.
My eyes glanced up at the URL line, and my brain misread it as “bigblackroomies.com” and I was all “that’s so racist” until I realized that the racism came from inside my own brain.
Joyce is right, they’re free. Until the Martian reach Earth and attack everyone that is.
Well let’s think about it, even though O’Rayn had reasons to believe Joyce had murdered another person it doesn’t seem like he knew who was murdered if he did he would have known it was a clone. On top of that does he have a way to persecute Joyce? For all he knows he has no idea who was murdered so there are no family, friends, or acquaintances to prove that the girl Joyce killed even existed all he has is a photo it’s in documents from an alleged source. It’s kind of ridiculous since that should shouldn’t be enough to link Joyce to a murder or have her prosecuted.
I feel like the story wants me to take Bart O’Ryan but his character felt a bit silly ever since he was introduced. He takes himself seriously but that’s what kind of makes him laughable….. I kind of want to see him in DoA.
He didn’t seem to care about the means so long as he achieved the end. A very effective antagonist.
They’ve spent the last, what, five years of their lives serving and having their sanity slowly eroded away by their experiences. Yeah, tomorrow, things are going to be tough including trying to find a home and work. Tonight at least, they don’t owe the world or the government that just threw them under the bus anything.
So, yeah, they’re free and I think that they should just walk away.
Well, like I said before, the idea of taking Joyce to the mat for killing Anti-Joyce is pretty shaky from a legal perspective. It makes for good TV, and that’s O’Ryan’s area of expertise, but he has no personal connection to the case and no knowledge of it save from government documents.
The only witnesses to that killing were Joyce’s colleagues and friends, all of whom would be prepared to defend Joyce on the grounds that she was an agent taking down an enemy combatant. And it’s legally questionable whether Anti-Joyce was even human. The CIA does a lot murkier stuff on a regular basis, and Americans more or less accept that.
Of course you and I know it was rage-fueled murder, but proving that in a court of law is chancy. The best legal strategy involves getting Joyce to crack and confess under hostile questioning, and that’s a roll of the dice.
Whether you view O’Ryan cynically or charitably, whether he’s a grubby ratings-chaser or trying to do what he sees as good with the position he has… either way, he would have to be pretty stupid to hang his credibility on a conviction when he can simply try Joyce in the court of public opinion and move on to his next target. I’ll admit that does make Sarah’s presence kind of weird, but I think Younger David Willis understood this on some level and that’s why the legal threat vanishes as soon as SEMME does.
(I do seem to recall something about Bart’s behavior here being a plot point when Sarah confronts them again, but I don’t have time to look it up this morning, so we’ll find out again together.)