No matter how much responsibility someone is willing to take, the actual act of seeing the people you just deprived of a daughter would be just a little challenging.
“Someone” there speaks very wisely and accurately.
And it’s not even what it does to YOU, it’s also about what it does to them. Why give them an even more forceful reminder of how their daughter is gone when the wound’s so fresh…but already trying to close?
I wasn’t any more to blame for Andi’s death than Danny was for Ruth’s (which is indirectly yes, but not actually culpable), and I felt a lot like him – guilty as hell, regretful, self-loathing (“this is what I’ve earned”)…but wanting to present yourself to other people you’ve hurt? Not so much…
I think I’ve seen her folks…three times? since the accident – might’ve been more in that first year (I was in a really dark place and I think my mind actually just didn’t bother making long-term memories during that grief…or maybe it was the prescriptions)
well, [BLEEP] it’s been twenty-four years since that rainy night – right from the subtle (and less-than-) hints before “No Regrets”, I was kinda steeling myself for another young woman dying in a car crash…and I was able to read right through it, but now, with the new storyline of the aliens and anti-alien paramilitaries, I kinda let my guard down.
…and you sucker punched me with this, you jerk. 😉
Now pass the tissues, while I dwell on the realization that she could’ve been watching her child – maybe our child – graduating from college in the last summer or two ago…
Why’s he even in there? I mean, yeah, he has DUIing but would they take a breathalyzer-test on him when he was the one hit by a truck driving the wrong way? Is that standard procedure? Nor do I understand why Danny feels any blame here. Maybe I misunderstood the sequence of events; First Danny drives off while “drunk” (how drunk would he even have had time to become?), Ruth, for some reason, drives off after him. Then a truck driver, for some reason, swerves off into oncoming traffick heading towards Danny. Then, when neither Danny nor the truck driver try to avoid each other (or even stop, did we ever find out what was wrong with the driver?) Ruth decides to ram Danny off the road. The same thing would’ve happened if Danny was sober and Ruth had been there I assume. It’s like a pedestrian was hit by a car and then detained by the police afterwards.
Yeah, but if Danny had been sober, Ruth wouldn’t have been there, so it’s natural that he would feel responsible and guilty.
Since he was driving drunk, they probably caught that at the scene or the hospital, and he would be facing a DUI. But, legally, I can’t think he would be facing any responsibility for Ruth’s death, which is probably why he gets off so easy.
They’re making sure to take note of the fact that there was A FREAKIN SEMI TRUCK THAT HAD CROSSED THE DIVIDER AND WAS JACK-KNIFING IN FRONT OF THEM AT A CLOSING SPEED OF 100+ MPH … right?!
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IU has police holding cells?
One minute in a hospital bed, the next in a jail cell… that was quick!
The hospital has a jail wing just for such occasions.
That, kinda makes me sad.
There was previously a mention of police questioning Danny, so it actually makes a bit of sense that he ends up here.
Take no responsibility, no regrets.
Danny’s parents: far more understanding here than in DoA.
It alarms me how much Danny’s dad looks like Mike here.
gotta say, I respect danny a bit here.
Why.
because after causing the death of someone he’s willing to take responsibility instead of hoping someone gets him of the hook for it
Yes, he’s so dedicated to facing responsibility that as soon as he learns that Ruth’s parents are here, he immediately wants to not face them.
No matter how much responsibility someone is willing to take, the actual act of seeing the people you just deprived of a daughter would be just a little challenging.
“Someone” there speaks very wisely and accurately.
And it’s not even what it does to YOU, it’s also about what it does to them. Why give them an even more forceful reminder of how their daughter is gone when the wound’s so fresh…but already trying to close?
I wasn’t any more to blame for Andi’s death than Danny was for Ruth’s (which is indirectly yes, but not actually culpable), and I felt a lot like him – guilty as hell, regretful, self-loathing (“this is what I’ve earned”)…but wanting to present yourself to other people you’ve hurt? Not so much…
I think I’ve seen her folks…three times? since the accident – might’ve been more in that first year (I was in a really dark place and I think my mind actually just didn’t bother making long-term memories during that grief…or maybe it was the prescriptions)
well, [BLEEP] it’s been twenty-four years since that rainy night – right from the subtle (and less-than-) hints before “No Regrets”, I was kinda steeling myself for another young woman dying in a car crash…and I was able to read right through it, but now, with the new storyline of the aliens and anti-alien paramilitaries, I kinda let my guard down.
…and you sucker punched me with this, you jerk. 😉
Now pass the tissues, while I dwell on the realization that she could’ve been watching her child – maybe our child – graduating from college in the last summer or two ago…
“Damnyou Willis” indeed. 😛
Gotta say, to me it seemed classic case of danning it up…
“I want to sit here and willow in misery because consequences…”
“Okay, well here come some consequences.”
“I DONT WANT TO FACE CONSEQUENCES!”
I don’t want to face the conceqeunces of manslaughter like jail so I’m going to sit in jail to avoid then…
😛
Huh, just realised Mr Wilcox has Mike’s hair.
Oh woah, don’t remember this. There were actual minor consequences.
No, Danny’s over 18.
ba-dum-TISH!
I don’t think I’ve read this set of strips before. It’ll be new to me. Wonder how I missed them, though.
Why does he want out? In there he has the safe bars to prevent her parents from killing him
Why’s he even in there? I mean, yeah, he has DUIing but would they take a breathalyzer-test on him when he was the one hit by a truck driving the wrong way? Is that standard procedure? Nor do I understand why Danny feels any blame here. Maybe I misunderstood the sequence of events; First Danny drives off while “drunk” (how drunk would he even have had time to become?), Ruth, for some reason, drives off after him. Then a truck driver, for some reason, swerves off into oncoming traffick heading towards Danny. Then, when neither Danny nor the truck driver try to avoid each other (or even stop, did we ever find out what was wrong with the driver?) Ruth decides to ram Danny off the road. The same thing would’ve happened if Danny was sober and Ruth had been there I assume. It’s like a pedestrian was hit by a car and then detained by the police afterwards.
Yeah, but if Danny had been sober, Ruth wouldn’t have been there, so it’s natural that he would feel responsible and guilty.
Since he was driving drunk, they probably caught that at the scene or the hospital, and he would be facing a DUI. But, legally, I can’t think he would be facing any responsibility for Ruth’s death, which is probably why he gets off so easy.
I agree with you, NightRaven. Ruth made her own choice, and frankly to blame Danny for her death cheapens that choice a bit, it seems to me.
Huh, I didn’t realize that Danny’s dad had a pre DoA appearance.
quick! start digging a tunnel with you bare hands!
They’re making sure to take note of the fact that there was A FREAKIN SEMI TRUCK THAT HAD CROSSED THE DIVIDER AND WAS JACK-KNIFING IN FRONT OF THEM AT A CLOSING SPEED OF 100+ MPH … right?!
wait a minute…
…divided highway…
…common route of heavy trucks…
…50+mph speed limit…
Dang, Danny – where were you going for the beer; Milwaukee?
Originally posted:
May 3, 1999