Well at least Tess is okay

And I totally think hes talking to Sera about Tess.

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I hope that made SOME modicum of sense. O_O Anyway, am I the only one here who doesn’t see Merrick and the SSI as a wholly evil and malicious group?

Tess, Stiletta, the monster chased into the woods, all are still unknowns at this point.

Tomorrow will indeed be epic! I just might stay up past midnite to see if Mr A posts early.

*MERRICK DID NOT MENTION TESS!*

We have no reason to assume that he has the slightest clue as to her condition. The words “Your little friend” are addressed to Lois. The “little friend” he’s talking about it almost certainly Sera, who is, after all, sitting there physically “just fine” except for some stomach discomfort.

Merrick cares about the dead SSI folks because they’re “his” people. Lois isn’t really “his” people, except in a loose fellow-law-enforcer way, which is usually tainted by jurisdictional conflicts anyway. And Sera….. well, Sera isn’t even “people”…… re: p. 7, “the *thing* is gone.” Aaron has personally confirmed that that *was* the same Merrick.

Merrick is here to *arrest* Sera, blaming her for his whole fouled-up (again) debacle. Lois will of course protest, and when her protests are ignored she will fall back on her personal promise as well as general duty to the locals and *act*. It can’t go well. When Merrick leaves, he will have one more person’s blood on his suit.

Main point tho, is that we still DON’T know anything about Tess’ condition. NOTHING. Nobody said “Tess is fine” or even “the large red-haired man is fine”. Merrick likely thinks of her as an irritating nuisance friend-of-witches at best, and an accomplice in the death of 8 federal agents at worst (or even as a fellow *killer*, since the entities *looked* like her). There’s no reason to even begin thinking he came here to spread joyous news about her safety, and the fact that he did not do so is somehow slipping into static for some reason.

So to everyone who HAS eyes and DOESN’T have hands over them, well, *use ‘em*! (why? why can nobody see the obvious? Aaron, could it be your “visual/visual” metaphors may be getting a bit deep?)

i DO think this page is astoundingly brilliant, by the way, in what is shown, what isn’t shown, what is said, and what isn’t said. And the sum is greater than its parts: Five stars for Mr A. And if Lois doesn’t survive past tomorrow, she will be dearly missed and fondly remembered.