Questionable Media Month Part 23
Dec. 30th, 2018 08:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amatyultareChapter 23 – So Close And Yet So Far
Oh yeah, they left the door open, while it had been closed before. So much for a false sense of security? Alex punches Mr. Lord in the face and they all try to overpower him, but he has a gun. Hey, remember how I said that the whole ‘overpowering an unstable kidnapper’ was a bad plan and they should call the cops?
Mr. Lord starts to villain-monologue about how he’s finally going to get what he’s owed as he forces Sadie to tie Alex and Mr. Ellison up. We get a huge infodump about his past, including the fact that he slept with the teenage daughter of the producer of a Broadway production. This incident, unsurprisingly, ended his tenure in Broadway. Mr. Ellison actually brings up that point, including our first in-book acknowledgement that a grown man sleeping with underage teenagers is both gross and illegal. THANK YOU, Mr. Ellison.
Anyway, long story short: Mr. Lord is desperate to get this better directing job because directing is his only possible future in theater.
Mr. Lord then goes to tie up Sadie, while Alex is already secretly working on freeing himself with his convenient pocket knife.
Then the most absurd thing in this maelstrom of absurdity happens. She gets a call from her dad (he’s a teacher at the high school and is calling to find out why she’s not at school) and convinces Mr. Lord that she has to take the call.
She tells her father that she overslept, but then blurts out that Mr. Lord has cast her as Bella. This apparently guarantees that Mr. Lord has to let her go back to school because if she’s not Bella in the show that night, her father will know something is wrong. But…he wouldn’t bat an eye if she just disappeared for a day or two?
So of course, the turning of the plot and the universe require that she be the star of the musical. Dear God, I don’t even care anymore, I just want to finish this thing.
Mr. Lord decides he has no choice but to let Sadie play Bella. On the other hand, Sadie will have to spend all day with him so she can’t go call the cops or anything. Also, apparently he thinks that everything will be over after this night’s performance and he’s presumably offered that other director’s position. So, is he planning on murdering all three of them? Because I am pretty sure kidnapping charges would interfere with his new job.
Suddenly Alex tries to talk Mr. Lord out of Sadie’s casting, telling him that Sadie won’t be as good a Bella as that other girl and would hurt his chances of getting the job. Sadie decides to react by being hurt that Alex doesn’t think she’s a good enough actor to handle the role. Man, she really would be the perfect Bella; she’s just as empty-headed and self-absorbed.
In any case, Mr. Lord is persuaded and goes to tie Sadie up again. But remember how Alex was working on cutting his bonds? He bursts out of them and grabs Mr. Lord as soon as the music teacher sets the gun down to tie Sadie up. Sadie grabs the gun and the scene ends with her telling Mr. Lord not to move or she’ll shoot him.
Oh yeah, they left the door open, while it had been closed before. So much for a false sense of security? Alex punches Mr. Lord in the face and they all try to overpower him, but he has a gun. Hey, remember how I said that the whole ‘overpowering an unstable kidnapper’ was a bad plan and they should call the cops?
Mr. Lord starts to villain-monologue about how he’s finally going to get what he’s owed as he forces Sadie to tie Alex and Mr. Ellison up. We get a huge infodump about his past, including the fact that he slept with the teenage daughter of the producer of a Broadway production. This incident, unsurprisingly, ended his tenure in Broadway. Mr. Ellison actually brings up that point, including our first in-book acknowledgement that a grown man sleeping with underage teenagers is both gross and illegal. THANK YOU, Mr. Ellison.
Anyway, long story short: Mr. Lord is desperate to get this better directing job because directing is his only possible future in theater.
Mr. Lord then goes to tie up Sadie, while Alex is already secretly working on freeing himself with his convenient pocket knife.
Then the most absurd thing in this maelstrom of absurdity happens. She gets a call from her dad (he’s a teacher at the high school and is calling to find out why she’s not at school) and convinces Mr. Lord that she has to take the call.
She tells her father that she overslept, but then blurts out that Mr. Lord has cast her as Bella. This apparently guarantees that Mr. Lord has to let her go back to school because if she’s not Bella in the show that night, her father will know something is wrong. But…he wouldn’t bat an eye if she just disappeared for a day or two?
So of course, the turning of the plot and the universe require that she be the star of the musical. Dear God, I don’t even care anymore, I just want to finish this thing.
Mr. Lord decides he has no choice but to let Sadie play Bella. On the other hand, Sadie will have to spend all day with him so she can’t go call the cops or anything. Also, apparently he thinks that everything will be over after this night’s performance and he’s presumably offered that other director’s position. So, is he planning on murdering all three of them? Because I am pretty sure kidnapping charges would interfere with his new job.
Suddenly Alex tries to talk Mr. Lord out of Sadie’s casting, telling him that Sadie won’t be as good a Bella as that other girl and would hurt his chances of getting the job. Sadie decides to react by being hurt that Alex doesn’t think she’s a good enough actor to handle the role. Man, she really would be the perfect Bella; she’s just as empty-headed and self-absorbed.
In any case, Mr. Lord is persuaded and goes to tie Sadie up again. But remember how Alex was working on cutting his bonds? He bursts out of them and grabs Mr. Lord as soon as the music teacher sets the gun down to tie Sadie up. Sadie grabs the gun and the scene ends with her telling Mr. Lord not to move or she’ll shoot him.
