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Miami Marlins-Minnesota Twins Series Preview

9.24.24-Ryan Weathers LHP (3-6) 3.94 ERA Vs. Bailey Ober RHP (12-7) 3.84 ERA

9.25.24-Edward Cabrera RHP (5-8) 4.12 ERA Vs. Simeon Woods Richardson RHP (5-5) 4.00 ERA

9.26.24-Valente Bellozo RHP (3-4) 4.82 ERA Vs. David Festa RHP (2-6) 4.80 ERA

The Marlins At A Glance- The Marlins are in the middle of a rough season and Skip Schumaker won't be back. The team announced that they would not extend this contract beyond this season. The Marlins will exceed 100 losses for the first time since 2019. The team traded Luis Arraez away early and sent some bullpen arms to other teams at the trade deadline. Jazz Chisholm was also traded to the Yankees. Jake Burger leads the offense with twenty-eight homers and sixty-nine RBI. Xavier Edwards has played well with a .311 average through sixty-four games. The team consists of a lot of young guys, who are getting their chance. Griffin Conine is hitting .238 and is the son of longtime MLB player Jeff Conine. The Marlins starting rotation has a 5.35 ERA, which is second-worst in baseball behind the Rockies. The Twins will see Ryan Weathers on Tuesday, who is a big pitching prospect of theirs. The bullpen is a little better with a 4.27 ERA. JT Chargois is on the Mariners now, Tanner Scott and Bryan Hoeing were traded to the Padres, AJ Puk was traded to the Diamondbacks, and Trevor Rogers is on the Orioles now. Calvin Faucher is the closer with six saves.

The Twins At A Glance- The Twins can only blame themselves for their demise. They didn't get depth during the trade deadline and injuries to Joe Ryan, Chris Paddack, and Brock Stewart have piled up. The Twins are (11-22) in their past thirty-three games and are lucky that the Royals are on another seven-game losing streak or else they would be out of the American League Wild-Card race. They sit a game behind the Tigers for the final playoff spot. Kyle Farmer has been the hottest hitter with a .395 average in September. Carlos Correa has knocked in five runs since his return. Matt Wallner has three homers and ten RBI this month. Max Kepler took live batting practice on Monday and it's unknown on if he'll be back. He didn't play in any rehab assignment games for the Saints and now their season is over. The pitching has been decent at times, but do not get enough run support. Scott Blewett has allowed just two runs over 16 2/3 innings of work since his call-up. He finally received a higher leverage inning in the extra inning game on Friday night. I'd expect Griffin Jax and Jhoan Duran to be used heavliy in this series given that they've had three days off.

What To Watch For- The Twins are (10-9) all-time against the Marlins. The Marlins took two of three games from the Twins early in the 2023 season at loanDepot Park. The Twins won the prior series in 2019, which was also in Miami. The Marlins haven't been to Minnesota since 2016, when they lost two out of three games. None of the six scheduled starters have faced their opponent before. The Tigers get three with the Rays this week and the Royals get three against the Nationals in DC this week. The Twins need to win and get a little help to stay in this Wild-Card race.

-Chris Kreibichi-

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THIS IS AL PACINO THAT I FUCKING HATE THIS FUCKING PICTURE THAT THIS LOOKS INTO A NIGGER THAT I FUCKING HATE WITH ALL OF THIS PASSIONS TO FRUITS AND THAT I AM THE FUCKING THE DEVL I BURN THESE PEOPLE UP AND THAT I DON'T FUCKING DON'T CARE AT ALL. THAT THIS IS ROBERT DE NIRO THAT I FUCKING FUCK PICK UP CATS AND SQUEEZE THEIR NECKS AND BREAK THEIR NECKS AND THEN SAY I FUCKING DID THAT THATS RIGHT I FUCKING DID THAT. SAME AS I WOULD TO CHILD TO LOOKS SO HOW OFENTS HABITS THAT HAPPENS WITH I FUCKING WITH LITTLE GIRLS AND BOYS AND KISSING THEM AND LOVING THEM AND BACK AND FORTH. THIS IS MADONNA, LADY GAGA, MILEY CYRUS, TAYLOR SWIFT, CHARLIZE THERON THROUGH IN THIS PICTURE THAT I FUCKING KILL THESE PEOPLE AND THE HAPPY AND KIDS FUCKING LICKS IN SIDE THEIR MOUTHS AND TONGUES AND SUCKING ON THE EATING OUT OUR PUSSIES WHILE ALL CUM SO HARD AND FRENCH KISS ALL OFF IN THE BUTTS AND ASSES AND EATTING EACH OTHERS OUT. THIS IS DANIEL DAY-LEWIS, JIM CARRY, STEELIO BRIM, KEVIN BACON, GEORGE CLOONEY, MATT DAMON, BEN AFFLECK, ALEC BALDWIN, NOTHING TOO SAY THE ALL THE TINY OF SUN SHINE THAT SMELLS TO HAIR DIRTY TO SMELL GOOD AND GREAT REDS, BLONDES, BLACK HAIRS. THEY ALL KIDS ALL COME WITH NO CLOTHES ON THAT WE ALL OUT IN WITH ALL FUCKING DICKS IN CHILD OF A BOYS AND A THE GIRLS THAT PUSSY SO SMALL TO FIT IN. THIS IS RALPH FIENNES & HUGO WEAVING AND THAT THEY TAKE ON THE PETS AND FEED AND FEEL ON LITTLE BOYS THE ONES WAS NOTHING FROM SOMETHING LET ME AND MY BOYS AND PALS WE ALL ARE LONELY AND AS SO IT IS HUGO AND RALPH SAID Y'ALL ARE SO RAVISHING TO USE TO THE BATHROOM THE BATH STAIRS IN THE PALACE AND CASTLE THANX. THIS IS ROBERT FOX, AMY FOX, BEN MACKLIN, AJ SAMI AJARZI, VICTORIA BARBIE JONES, STACY MEADOWS, TAMARRA REA KENNEDY, LARRY DALE KENNEDY, ANDREA KENNEDY, TONYA KENNEDY, DALE LARRY KENNEDY, VINCENT MCMAHON, WARREN BUFFETT, CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, JACK NICOLSON, JACOB ROTHSCHILD, VIN DIESEL, DWAYNE JOHNSON, SUNG KANG, TYREESE GIBSON, Tony Todd, Kevin Hart, BOY GEORGE, LIL NAS X, CARSON KRESSLEY, SIMON COWELL, HOWARD STERN, MEL B, OPRAH WINFREY AND THAT THEY SAY ALL FUCKING NIGGERS WILL BE HUNG ON TREE AND FUCKING BURN THEIR SKIN AND SAY WHITE FUCKIHG POWER. WE ALL HATE NIGGERS THAT ARE ON ATTACKING THE RACES OF ALL RACES TO GET THEM ON ALL ON THE CROSS AND WATCH THEM SO MUCH MORE PURGE SURGE ON TV RADIO AND VHS OR RECORD AND THAT WE FUCKING LOOKS ALIKE LIKE UGH THAT IS SO FUCKING SO MORE THAN THAT WE ALL DO AND NOT HAVE FUN WITH FUCKING LOOSER THAT IS ALL. THIS WEIGHT OF THEIR WEIGHT OF THE WAYS TO OFF OF THE JOBS TO FURTHER ALONG TO THE WAYS TO DO WITH CELL PHONES, ELECTRONIC DEVICES, JOBS, INSURANCES POLICIES, IDENTITY THEFT, KIDNAPPER, RANSOM, AND BEING MALICIOUS TERRORISTS HACKERS THAT THEY ALL ARE WITH BEING WITH NO NAMES THAT I ONLY HEAR VOICES THAT THEY DOWNSIDES IT TO MAKE LEVERAGE TO CHANGE HIT THE WORLD TO THE EARTH TO SABATOGE IT AND SAY WHAT THEY WANT TO NEED TO SAY AND FUCK UP IS A FUCK UP AND THATS ALL THAT THEY ARE AND GOOD AT THAT THEY GET EVER ARREST THATS GOOD, BUT THEIR THE NOT GETTING EVER TO ARRESTING THEM AND DAMN STRAIGHT THAT THE COMPANIES OWNERS THAT GOOD & NICE PEOPLE ALL KNOW THAT WE STAB THEM AND EVERY WHERE THAT THEY CAN GET STAB TO DEATH FIST AND KICK THEM AND THEY ARE NOT GONNA. THEN WE GOT GUNS AND WE CAN FUCKING SHOOT THEM TO DEATH AND BLOW THEIR FUCKING BALLS TO TITS AND PUSSIE AND DICKS AND THAT WE AT A POINT TO THEIR TO THAT TUNES TO MUSICS TO PYTHON TO SQUEEZE TO THE RIGS TO TRIGS TO DRAGS AND CHANGES TO LOST IN AT NOT KNOT OF CHOKE AND THEIR THEIFS AND THEIVES TO SEXUAL PREDATORS THAT THEY ARE AND PHEDOPHILES AND THEIR REST OF THE MOOD MUSES TO MIXURES. ANYWAYS THAT IS ALL FOR RIGHT NOW LEFT OUT BYE...

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With its iconic landmarks, rolling hills, diverse neighborhoods, and temperate climate, San Francisco entices visitors from around the world. Flying into San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and renting a car allows you to fully explore all the dynamic city has to offer along with popular side trips like Napa Valley, Monterey, and Yosemite. This guide will outline everything you need to know about securing a rental car from SFO Airport. We’ll cover rental car companies, money-saving tips, choosing the right vehicle, navigating San Francisco by car, and efficiently handling pick-up and drop-off of your rental. Let's hit the road! Choosing a SFO Airport Rental Car Company As one of the busiest airports in the U.S., SFO offers rental counters for all the major national chains as well as some local brands. Choosing the right company comes down to pricing, vehicle selection, and policies that fit your needs. National Brands at SFO The major international companies with rental operations at SFO Airport include: Alamo – Great for unlimited mileage to allow worry-free road tripping Avis – Renowned for excellent customer loyalty programs Budget – Part of the Avis family, with very affordable base rates Dollar – Watch out for add-on fees that increase final cost Enterprise – Huge assortment of vehicle types and pick-up spots Hertz – Long-established company with premium vehicle maintenance National – Upscale sister-brand to Enterprise, with luxury rentals Thrifty – Deeply discounted base rates but strict mileage limits Take advantage of any corporate, AAA, AARP, or frequent flyer discounts you may have access to as a member. Local San Francisco Rental Agencies Some smaller local brands operating out of SFO include: AJ Car Rental – Independently owned with shuttle service and exotic car rentals Bandago – Specializes in passenger and cargo vans for large groups Fox Rent a Car – Local chain known for adding fees, but very low base rates Pacific Rent-A-Car – Older vehicles but prices far under major brands ZipCar – Convenient hourly rentals within the city for quick trips While fleets are smaller, local agencies can secure cheap deals at SFO. Rental Car Aggregator Sites Comparison sites make it easy to find the best rate across multiple companies: Kayak Priceline Expedia RentalCars.com CarRentals.com Always verify full pricing including fees directly on the rental company site after comparing initial rates. Getting Cheap SFO Airport Rental Car Deals Scoring an SFO Airport rental bargain takes savvy use of these money-saving strategies: Book Early For Best Selection Last minute rentals will have the highest rates. Reserve at least 4 weeks out when discounts appear. Go Offsite to Avoid Airport Surcharges Neighborhood rental locations provide cheaper options within shuttle distance of SFO. Use Discount Codes and Coupons Reputable sites like CarRentalSavers.com offer valid SFO promo codes to stack on savings. Skip Unneeded Extras and Insurance Prepaying fuel and GPS rentals offer minimal savings versus alternatives. Review existing coverage. Leverage Deals and Loyalty Perks Sign up for rental company rewards programs to access special offers and earn free rentals. Compare Total Quote With Taxes/Fees A cheap base rate could end up costlier after tacked-on airport taxes and insurance costs. Picking the Right SFO Rental Car Important factors like group size and road trip plans help determine the ideal SFO Airport rental: Economy/Compact Cars Best low-cost option for 1-2 travelers with limited luggage needs. Models like the Hyundai Accent and Toyota Yaris maximize fuel efficiency. Midsize/Intermediate Cars Allow a bit more leg room and cargo space over compact rentals for 2-4 travelers. Cars like the Nissan Sentra or H

onda Civic are popular. Full Size Cars Accommodate families with capacity for 5 in spacious sedans like the Toyota Camry or Nissan Altima. Passenger Vans Large 12-15 passenger vans like the Ford Transit provide affordable group travel for bigger parties with ample room for luggage. Luxury/Premium Rentals Treat yourself to high-end brands like BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Cadillac and Lexus with luxury features. SUVs and Minivans Larger vehicles like the Toyota Highlander or Chevy Suburban offer abundant passenger and cargo room. Avoid oversizing your rental to minimize spending more on gas and parking than necessary. Navigating San Francisco by Car Driving San Francisco's famous hills and winding streets can be daunting for newcomers. Use these navigation pointers: Download Offline Maps Navigation apps like Google Maps let you pre-load maps to access without cell service, which gets spotty in some areas. Time Traffic Over Bridges Congestion frequently clogs the Bay Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge and other SFO corridors during rush hour. Take Curvy Roads Slow Use caution on narrow, winding paths like Lombard Street. Allow extra drive time getting across the city. Watch for Changing Parking Rules Street parking hours and pricing fluctuates widely - closely check meter and permit signs wherever you park. Leave Extra Distance on Hills San Francisco's steep hills make standard following distances dangerous. Leave ample room so you don’t roll back into another car. Plan for Parking Costs Parking is notoriously expensive downtown. Use apps like SpotHero to find discounted garage parking rates. Add-Ons to Consider for SFO Rentals Basic rental insurance leaves gaps where supplemental coverage might bring peace of mind: Collision Damage Waiver (CDW) Covers your liability for damage from an accident, which is likely on congested Bay Area roads. Supplemental Liability Protection In a major at-fault accident, additional liability coverage protects you from potentially huge injury lawsuit payouts. Personal Effects Coverage Reimburses stolen items from your rental, since car break-ins unfortunately occur. Roadside Assistance Plan Especially helpful for long drives. Provides 24/7 help with lock-outs, flat tires, jumps starts and towing. Toll Pass or Plate Avoids having to stop to pay bridge tolls in cash, saving hassle and time. Evaluate your own insurance policies before deciding if extra rental protection makes sense. Picking Up and Returning Your SFO Rental A seamless rental experience starts with best practices at the counter: Have Valid Driver’s License Ready Present a driver's license with any required endorsements for the vehicle class you're renting. Double check the expiration. Take Time to Inspect the Vehicle Note any prior damage before leaving the lot by taking 5-10 minutes to look over every side. This can prevent bogus damage claims. Review Fuel Options Verify whether you must return the tank full, or can refill yourself later. Top off just before dropping off to skip inflated refueling fees. Allow Extra Return Time Give yourself 60-90 minutes buffer before your flight to accommodate traffic delays and check-in lines without rushing. Take Timestamped Return Photos Photos proving the vehicle's condition and where it was parked upon return protect against unfair charges for damage or location. FAQs Still have questions about navigating SFO car rentals? Here are some quick answers: What is the minimum age to rent a car at SFO Airport? The minimum age for most rental providers is 21 years old. Additional daily fees apply for drivers under 25. What payment do I need for an SFO Airport rental car? A major credit card in your name must be presented - debit cards, cash, and prepaid cards are generally not accepted. Is it cheaper to take Uber/Lyft instead of renting a car in San Francisco? For more than 2-3

rides, a rental car usually saves substantially over rideshares. Do SF Airport rental car rates include taxes and fees? Typically no – you'll pay an extra 15-25% on top of the base rate for taxes, concession recovery fees, and required insurance. Should I book an SFO Airport rental car far in advance? Yes, booking at least 4 weeks out will secure you the best rates. Last minute walk-ups have the highest pricing. Driving Outside San Francisco With Your Rental A rental car from SFO makes popular side trips like Napa wine touring, coastal drives to Monterey and Carmel, and Yosemite adventures easily accessible. Keep these road trip tips in mind: Pack Layers and Snacks Northern California's climate varies widely from coast to mountains. Bring layers and plenty of snacks in case you get stranded. Don't Rely on Cell Service Some remote areas like Big Sur and Yosemite have zones with no cell coverage. Download offline maps ahead of time. Research Parking Options When visiting congested cities like San Francisco and Napa, research parking costs and availability at garages in advance. Avoid Dirt Roads Stay on paved roads only, as rental agreements prohibit travel on unpaved backroads and off-roading. Watch for Wildlife Near Mountains Animals like deer are active near mountain roads. Slow down and be alert, especially at dawn and dusk when visibility is low. With the keys to a rental car from SFO, you can venture beyond San Francisco to experience the diversity of Northern California’s iconic landscapes and endless attractions. #Wiack #Car #CarInsurance #CarRental #CarPrice #AutoLoans

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With its iconic landmarks, rolling hills, diverse neighborhoods, and temperate climate, San Francisco entices visitors from around the world. Flying into San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and renting a car allows you to fully explore all the dynamic city has to offer along with popular side trips like Napa Valley, Monterey, and Yosemite. This guide will outline everything you need to know about securing a rental car from SFO Airport. We’ll cover rental car companies, money-saving tips, choosing the right vehicle, navigating San Francisco by car, and efficiently handling pick-up and drop-off of your rental. Let's hit the road! Choosing a SFO Airport Rental Car Company As one of the busiest airports in the U.S., SFO offers rental counters for all the major national chains as well as some local brands. Choosing the right company comes down to pricing, vehicle selection, and policies that fit your needs. National Brands at SFO The major international companies with rental operations at SFO Airport include: Alamo – Great for unlimited mileage to allow worry-free road tripping Avis – Renowned for excellent customer loyalty programs Budget – Part of the Avis family, with very affordable base rates Dollar – Watch out for add-on fees that increase final cost Enterprise – Huge assortment of vehicle types and pick-up spots Hertz – Long-established company with premium vehicle maintenance National – Upscale sister-brand to Enterprise, with luxury rentals Thrifty – Deeply discounted base rates but strict mileage limits Take advantage of any corporate, AAA, AARP, or frequent flyer discounts you may have access to as a member. Local San Francisco Rental Agencies Some smaller local brands operating out of SFO include: AJ Car Rental – Independently owned with shuttle service and exotic car rentals Bandago – Specializes in passenger and cargo vans for large groups Fox Rent a Car – Local chain known for adding fees, but very low base rates Pacific Rent-A-Car – Older vehicles but prices far under major brands ZipCar – Convenient hourly rentals within the city for quick trips While fleets are smaller, local agencies can secure cheap deals at SFO. Rental Car Aggregator Sites Comparison sites make it easy to find the best rate across multiple companies: Kayak Priceline Expedia RentalCars.com CarRentals.com Always verify full pricing including fees directly on the rental company site after comparing initial rates. Getting Cheap SFO Airport Rental Car Deals Scoring an SFO Airport rental bargain takes savvy use of these money-saving strategies: Book Early For Best Selection Last minute rentals will have the highest rates. Reserve at least 4 weeks out when discounts appear. Go Offsite to Avoid Airport Surcharges Neighborhood rental locations provide cheaper options within shuttle distance of SFO. Use Discount Codes and Coupons Reputable sites like CarRentalSavers.com offer valid SFO promo codes to stack on savings. Skip Unneeded Extras and Insurance Prepaying fuel and GPS rentals offer minimal savings versus alternatives. Review existing coverage. Leverage Deals and Loyalty Perks Sign up for rental company rewards programs to access special offers and earn free rentals. Compare Total Quote With Taxes/Fees A cheap base rate could end up costlier after tacked-on airport taxes and insurance costs. Picking the Right SFO Rental Car Important factors like group size and road trip plans help determine the ideal SFO Airport rental: Economy/Compact Cars Best low-cost option for 1-2 travelers with limited luggage needs. Models like the Hyundai Accent and Toyota Yaris maximize fuel efficiency. Midsize/Intermediate Cars Allow a bit more leg room and cargo space over compact rentals for 2-4 travelers. Cars like the Nissan Sentra or H

onda Civic are popular. Full Size Cars Accommodate families with capacity for 5 in spacious sedans like the Toyota Camry or Nissan Altima. Passenger Vans Large 12-15 passenger vans like the Ford Transit provide affordable group travel for bigger parties with ample room for luggage. Luxury/Premium Rentals Treat yourself to high-end brands like BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Cadillac and Lexus with luxury features. SUVs and Minivans Larger vehicles like the Toyota Highlander or Chevy Suburban offer abundant passenger and cargo room. Avoid oversizing your rental to minimize spending more on gas and parking than necessary. Navigating San Francisco by Car Driving San Francisco's famous hills and winding streets can be daunting for newcomers. Use these navigation pointers: Download Offline Maps Navigation apps like Google Maps let you pre-load maps to access without cell service, which gets spotty in some areas. Time Traffic Over Bridges Congestion frequently clogs the Bay Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge and other SFO corridors during rush hour. Take Curvy Roads Slow Use caution on narrow, winding paths like Lombard Street. Allow extra drive time getting across the city. Watch for Changing Parking Rules Street parking hours and pricing fluctuates widely - closely check meter and permit signs wherever you park. Leave Extra Distance on Hills San Francisco's steep hills make standard following distances dangerous. Leave ample room so you don’t roll back into another car. Plan for Parking Costs Parking is notoriously expensive downtown. Use apps like SpotHero to find discounted garage parking rates. Add-Ons to Consider for SFO Rentals Basic rental insurance leaves gaps where supplemental coverage might bring peace of mind: Collision Damage Waiver (CDW) Covers your liability for damage from an accident, which is likely on congested Bay Area roads. Supplemental Liability Protection In a major at-fault accident, additional liability coverage protects you from potentially huge injury lawsuit payouts. Personal Effects Coverage Reimburses stolen items from your rental, since car break-ins unfortunately occur. Roadside Assistance Plan Especially helpful for long drives. Provides 24/7 help with lock-outs, flat tires, jumps starts and towing. Toll Pass or Plate Avoids having to stop to pay bridge tolls in cash, saving hassle and time. Evaluate your own insurance policies before deciding if extra rental protection makes sense. Picking Up and Returning Your SFO Rental A seamless rental experience starts with best practices at the counter: Have Valid Driver’s License Ready Present a driver's license with any required endorsements for the vehicle class you're renting. Double check the expiration. Take Time to Inspect the Vehicle Note any prior damage before leaving the lot by taking 5-10 minutes to look over every side. This can prevent bogus damage claims. Review Fuel Options Verify whether you must return the tank full, or can refill yourself later. Top off just before dropping off to skip inflated refueling fees. Allow Extra Return Time Give yourself 60-90 minutes buffer before your flight to accommodate traffic delays and check-in lines without rushing. Take Timestamped Return Photos Photos proving the vehicle's condition and where it was parked upon return protect against unfair charges for damage or location. FAQs Still have questions about navigating SFO car rentals? Here are some quick answers: What is the minimum age to rent a car at SFO Airport? The minimum age for most rental providers is 21 years old. Additional daily fees apply for drivers under 25. What payment do I need for an SFO Airport rental car? A major credit card in your name must be presented - debit cards, cash, and prepaid cards are generally not accepted. Is it cheaper to take Uber/Lyft instead of renting a car in San Francisco? For more than 2-3

rides, a rental car usually saves substantially over rideshares. Do SF Airport rental car rates include taxes and fees? Typically no – you'll pay an extra 15-25% on top of the base rate for taxes, concession recovery fees, and required insurance. Should I book an SFO Airport rental car far in advance? Yes, booking at least 4 weeks out will secure you the best rates. Last minute walk-ups have the highest pricing. Driving Outside San Francisco With Your Rental A rental car from SFO makes popular side trips like Napa wine touring, coastal drives to Monterey and Carmel, and Yosemite adventures easily accessible. Keep these road trip tips in mind: Pack Layers and Snacks Northern California's climate varies widely from coast to mountains. Bring layers and plenty of snacks in case you get stranded. Don't Rely on Cell Service Some remote areas like Big Sur and Yosemite have zones with no cell coverage. Download offline maps ahead of time. Research Parking Options When visiting congested cities like San Francisco and Napa, research parking costs and availability at garages in advance. Avoid Dirt Roads Stay on paved roads only, as rental agreements prohibit travel on unpaved backroads and off-roading. Watch for Wildlife Near Mountains Animals like deer are active near mountain roads. Slow down and be alert, especially at dawn and dusk when visibility is low. With the keys to a rental car from SFO, you can venture beyond San Francisco to experience the diversity of Northern California’s iconic landscapes and endless attractions. #Wiack #Car #CarInsurance #CarRental #CarPrice #AutoLoans

[yuyu-bi]

also carmela finally getting what she deserves but w aj’s school counselor??? 😭😭 happy for her really i am but then she tried to use him to improve aj’s grade she should have kept her mouth shut 💀 and he was like “you strong-armed me using the only weapon you have... your pussy." 😭😭😭 i hate when she acts super oblivious to it like why mention your son at all when you’re in bed w this man regardless 💀💀 gross

bc she genuinely liked this guy and he liked her too outside of tony and everything but she tried to manipulate him the way she would tony but literally had no leverage other than ‘you better watch your back’ lmao are you gonna do him like you did furio???? not even intentionally but it seems that way 😭

also why does tony always think whenever carmela likes some dude he’s like automatically gay 💀 she even called him out on this and asked him why he knows so much about being gay 🤨 again my suggestion would fit so well especially w the last couple of episodes 🤠

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Tag game: Answer these questions, then tag 9 people you want to get to know better.

I was tagged by the lovely @introvertia

3 ships : Harringrove, WinterBaron, Lawrusso

First ships: Polgara/Durnik

Last Movie: The Menu

Last Song: Werewolf by Motionless in White

Currently watching: A rewatch of Leverage (just finished The Rundown Job)

Currently reading: How I Stole the Princess’s White Knight and Turned Him to Villainy by AJ Sherwood

Currently consuming: Water

Currently craving: Mozzarella sticks

If you would like to: anyone who happens to see this

[explorermsnbingedge]

THIS IS AL PACINO THAT I FUCKING HATE THIS FUCKING PICTURE THAT THIS LOOKS INTO A NIGGER THAT I FUCKING HATE WITH ALL OF THIS PASSIONS TO FRUITS AND THAT I AM THE FUCKING THE DEVL I BURN THESE PEOPLE UP AND THAT I DON'T FUCKING DON'T CARE AT ALL. THAT THIS IS ROBERT DE NIRO THAT I FUCKING FUCK PICK UP CATS AND SQUEEZE THEIR NECKS AND BREAK THEIR NECKS AND THEN SAY I FUCKING DID THAT THATS RIGHT I FUCKING DID THAT. SAME AS I WOULD TO CHILD TO LOOKS SO HOW OFENTS HABITS THAT HAPPENS WITH I FUCKING WITH LITTLE GIRLS AND BOYS AND KISSING THEM AND LOVING THEM AND BACK AND FORTH. THIS IS MADONNA, LADY GAGA, MILEY CYRUS, TAYLOR SWIFT, CHARLIZE THERON THROUGH IN THIS PICTURE THAT I FUCKING KILL THESE PEOPLE AND THE HAPPY AND KIDS FUCKING LICKS IN SIDE THEIR MOUTHS AND TONGUES AND SUCKING ON THE EATING OUT OUR PUSSIES WHILE ALL CUM SO HARD AND FRENCH KISS ALL OFF IN THE BUTTS AND ASSES AND EATTING EACH OTHERS OUT. THIS IS DANIEL DAY-LEWIS, JIM CARRY, STEELIO BRIM, KEVIN BACON, GEORGE CLOONEY, MATT DAMON, BEN AFFLECK, ALEC BALDWIN, NOTHING TOO SAY THE ALL THE TINY OF SUN SHINE THAT SMELLS TO HAIR DIRTY TO SMELL GOOD AND GREAT REDS, BLONDES, BLACK HAIRS. THEY ALL KIDS ALL COME WITH NO CLOTHES ON THAT WE ALL OUT IN WITH ALL FUCKING DICKS IN CHILD OF A BOYS AND A THE GIRLS THAT PUSSY SO SMALL TO FIT IN. THIS IS RALPH FIENNES & HUGO WEAVING AND THAT THEY TAKE ON THE PETS AND FEED AND FEEL ON LITTLE BOYS THE ONES WAS NOTHING FROM SOMETHING LET ME AND MY BOYS AND PALS WE ALL ARE LONELY AND AS SO IT IS HUGO AND RALPH SAID Y'ALL ARE SO RAVISHING TO USE TO THE BATHROOM THE BATH STAIRS IN THE PALACE AND CASTLE THANX. THIS IS ROBERT FOX, AMY FOX, BEN MACKLIN, AJ SAMI AJARZI, VICTORIA BARBIE JONES, STACY MEADOWS, TAMARRA REA KENNEDY, LARRY DALE KENNEDY, ANDREA KENNEDY, TONYA KENNEDY, DALE LARRY KENNEDY, VINCENT MCMAHON, WARREN BUFFETT, CHRISTOPHER WALKEN, JACK NICOLSON, JACOB ROTHSCHILD, VIN DIESEL, DWAYNE JOHNSON, SUNG KANG, TYREESE GIBSON, BOY GEORGE, LIL NAS X, CARSON KRESSLEY, SIMON COWELL, HOWARD STERN, MEL B, OPRAH WINFREY AND THAT THEY SAY ALL FUCKING NIGGERS WILL BE HUNG ON TREE AND FUCKING BURN THEIR SKIN AND SAY WHITE FUCKIHG POWER. WE ALL HATE NIGGERS THAT ARE ON ATTACKING THE RACES OF ALL RACES TO GET THEM ON ALL ON THE CROSS AND WATCH THEM SO MUCH MORE PURGE SURGE ON TV RADIO AND VHS OR RECORD AND THAT WE FUCKING LOOKS ALIKE LIKE UGH THAT IS SO FUCKING SO MORE THAN THAT WE ALL DO AND NOT HAVE FUN WITH FUCKING LOOSER THAT IS ALL. THIS WEIGHT OF THEIR WEIGHT OF THE WAYS TO OFF OF THE JOBS TO FURTHER ALONG TO THE WAYS TO DO WITH CELL PHONES, ELECTRONIC DEVICES, JOBS, INSURANCES POLICIES, IDENTITY THEFT, KIDNAPPER, RANSOM, AND BEING MALICIOUS TERRORISTS HACKERS THAT THEY ALL ARE WITH BEING WITH NO NAMES THAT I ONLY HEAR VOICES THAT THEY DOWNSIDES IT TO MAKE LEVERAGE TO CHANGE HIT THE WORLD TO THE EARTH TO SABATOGE IT AND SAY WHAT THEY WANT TO NEED TO SAY AND FUCK UP IS A FUCK UP AND THATS ALL THAT THEY ARE AND GOOD AT THAT THEY GET EVER ARREST THATS GOOD, BUT THEIR THE NOT GETTING EVER TO ARRESTING THEM AND DAMN STRAIGHT THAT THE COMPANIES OWNERS THAT GOOD & NICE PEOPLE ALL KNOW THAT WE STAB THEM AND EVERY WHERE THAT THEY CAN GET STAB TO DEATH FIST AND KICK THEM AND THEY ARE NOT GONNA. THEN WE GOT GUNS AND WE CAN FUCKING SHOOT THEM TO DEATH AND BLOW THEIR FUCKING BALLS TO TITS AND PUSSIE AND DICKS AND THAT WE AT A POINT TO THEIR TO THAT TUNES TO MUSICS TO PYTHON TO SQUEEZE TO THE RIGS TO TRIGS TO DRAGS AND CHANGES TO LOST IN AT NOT KNOT OF CHOKE AND THEIR THEIFS AND THEIVES TO SEXUAL PREDATORS THAT THEY ARE AND PHEDOPHILES AND THEIR REST OF THE MOOD MUSES TO MIXURES. ANYWAYS THAT IS ALL FOR RIGHT NOW LEFT OUT BYE...

After 3 hours, my little danny ghosts are here!

[aj-lenoire]

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[writerwrites]

It’s Meant to Feel That Way | Part III

Pairing: Andy Barber x Reader

Summary: Two strangers in a grocery store are brought together by a little boy determined to make them a family.

Word Count: 4.7k

Warnings: SMUT 18+ Only, Minors DNI, Fluff, Defending Jacob non-canon ending, brief mention of grief/child loss, brief mention of absentee parent, brief mention of mother nervous about post-pregnancy body, idiots try to act like sexually responsible adults and instead are canon idiots.

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“Daddy!” Andy hadn’t even made it completely through your bedroom door when he heard a drowsy but excited version of his favorite greeting behind him. Turning around he scooped up the toddler before he could climb into your bed. Rubbing the little guy’s back and walking back to his own room, Andy smiled at AJ’s lisped request, “One more story?”

Andy didn’t correct AJ to tell him that he hadn’t had a story at all because he’d fallen asleep downstairs well past his bedtime. Instead, the lawyer sat on the edge of his tiny bed with AJ curled up against him rubbing small circles along his spine and balancing a book with the other hand. His broad fingers gave him leverage that yours no longer could, making you wistful for the baby days. Leaning against the door, watching the pair of them with a smile, your mind wandered to the thought of Andy holding a tiny baby and the excitement of the thought terrified you. Then you cleared your throat to get their attention, “Sorry to interrupt. I’m going to jump in the shower before bed.”

“Nigh-night kisses.” AJ puckered his lips, it was a statement and expectation and you loved him for it, your heart twisting at the thought that he wouldn’t always want your affection. Closing the space you gave him a little peck before fussing over his messy hair. Andy tapped your thigh with the book and smiled up at you, his brow furrowed with concern. Before he could ask where you’d gone, AJ was interrupting again, “Daddy needs nigh-night kisses too.”

“Oh, does he now?” You shook your head as they both nodded, your heart fluttering with that ‘I could get used to this’ feeling. With a single soft kiss to his lips, you tried not to read into the feeling of Andy’s mouth turning up into a smile against yours or how happy it made you that you’d put it there. Andy smiling was easily one of your favorite new things, something you cherished and wanted to keep drawing out of him. It was also something you realized you didn’t want to go a day without. Your cheeks warmed as that fleeting thought of his permanent presence in your family, a family you apparently wanted to expand, dinged back to the forefront of your mind. “You’ll be okay in here? It’ll just be a quick shower.”

He gave you an expression that could only be interpreted as c’mon lady and you shook your head and laughed, pausing in the door to enjoy the view one more time. Andy was already settling into the story, voices and dinosaur sounds all done in hushed tones as his hand rubbed circles into your son’s back. AJ let out a big yawn as he snuggled into the lawyer’s chest. Shower! Stop staring, you told yourself. With a shake of your head you left them to it, a fresh burst of anxiety bubbling in your chest as you tried not to think too long on the fact that this amazing man was about to climb into your bed. As your sweet mint and rain body wash circled the drain you tried not to think of the fact that your mother had called it No Man’s Land since you found out you were pregnant and how she was unknowingly correct about your non-existent sex life.

The lawyer had stayed in AJ’s room while you were in the shower, not wanting you to feel like he was snooping in your space but also completely reluctant to tuck in the sleeping boy. He listened to the toddler’s steady breathing against his chest and the sound of you in the shower. In the quiet symphony of a typical evening, Andy was left with his thoughts and desires. It was something he’d continued to mull over in moments of solitude since he’d met the two of you, how happy and welcome the pair of you had made him feel was always at the forefront of those moments. Then there were the surprising thoughts of a future, one he’d never thought he was worthy of at any point in his life.

As Andy heard the shower shut off, he tucked AJ in, smiling at the thought that he’d get to keep coming home to the scampering of AJ’s feet and the excited cheer of his arrival. Then he swallowed that undeserving feeling that had become all too familiar since he lost Jacob. All of this was a gift, but now he was faced with the reality that you would naked beside him in bed tonight and, hopefully, every night for the rest of his life. It wasn’t the first time he’d pictured a wedding that wasn’t just some rushed courthouse affair but a real celebration of what the two of you had, an instant spark lit by your son.

With a grateful kiss to the little one’s downy soft hair, Andy picked up around the room, imagining a future of candlelit dinner dates or picking up AJ from his grandparents to tell them you were expecting. He could still perfectly recall the picture of you with your parents, pregnant with AJ downstairs. Before he’d even realized he had feelings for you he’d thought about how stunning you would be carrying his baby. Now he was acutely aware that he wanted it all, the family vacations with sandcastles, a graduation where AJ followed in his footsteps and became a lawyer- or a dinosaur chasing rocket scientist. He chuckled and put away the last of the scattered toys and books in the bedroom. Every vague glimpse of this future he wanted with the two of you always seemed to be so alive; growing happy and healthy. There was an ounce of guilt in knowing that he’d loved a whole separate family he’d lost and that in just a few weeks he’d found more love, comfort, and possibility with a new one, one that was thriving before he came, a family that chose him as he was.

“Andy?” When you glanced over your bare shoulder, hearing your bedroom door close, you saw him standing by the emerald green velvet chair in the corner of your room, draping his clothes over the back one article at a time. Your arms slowly uncross from where they were covering your chest and settle around your stomach, instinctively hiding the scars that declared you a mother. His blue eyes watched you, never falling down your already bare body. By the time he was in nothing but his black boxer-briefs, the strain of his long, hard length made you aware that he was still just as needy as you were.

When you sucked your bottom lip into your mouth and nibbled on it he reached out his hand for you. Slowly closing that space felt like a lifetime and his eyes finally fell down your frame, raking in every curve, beauty mark, and scar. His tongue darted across his lips, making your body tingle with an eagerness to kiss him again- without a toddler as audience. “C’mere, sweetheart.” Sitting on the chair, Andy pulled you onto his lap, your thighs high on his so that your clit was brushing his cock. Your eyes had fallen down between your bodies, but before you could start to panic over how thick and long he was, his fingers were tipping your chin up, forcing him to look at you. “Comfy?” Squirming in his lap less out of nerves and more out of a need for attention, he ran his thumb across your bottom lip and smiled. “We can take this as slow as you want.”

Pressing your lips to his palm, you nodded and ran your hands up his stomach to his chest, finding peace in his racing pulse and how it mirrored your own. “If we were going as slow as I wanted then you would’ve been in the shower with me.” You laughed nervously, your eyes falling to his lips once more before glancing at him to gauge his reaction.

Andy’s lust-blown blue eyes closed and he pulled your mouth to his. His cock twitched against your heat, straining to be rid of the last thin piece of fabric separating you two. Unlike the way you’d kissed earlier, this was hungry, a desperate caress of tongues where your moan was met with his groan. Coming up breathless with swollen lips, his hands had moved softly down your back to your waist and then, like he’d been waiting patiently since you dropped your towel into the hamper, he moved around to your breasts. Palming the soft flesh, thumbs brushing over your taut nipples. “Every inch of you is so fucking beautiful, sweetheart. I wasn’t expecting this tonight, I-I don’t have any condoms.”

Your cheeks flushed with embarrassment and you bit your lip again, “Oh, I’m not on the pill and didn’t think we would…” He hushed away your worry by bringing one nipple to his lips, tracing the bud with the tip of his tongue before pausing to admire his glistening work. “I can make an appointment. I’m sure to get on it and I’m clean, but I’ll get tested too.” With a nod he moved to the neglected nipple and you tugged on the short hair at the nape of his neck, rocking your hips forward to find some release on your swollen clit. “Do you need an appointment too?” The words were breathless and then a gasp as he tugged gently on your nipple with his teeth.

“Sure, make one for me too and I’ll go with you.” His hands slipped down your stomach, making your muscles tighten. Thumbing the scars he smiled up at you softly after he managed to pull his gaze away from them. “I don’t think there’s anything more gorgeous than these.” His thumb moved back across the scars. “Such a symbol of your love for that amazing and special little guy.” Wrapping his hands back  around your waist he slowly massaged his large palms down until they were firmly gripping your ass. “It’s saying a lot, sweetheart, because you’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen and I’m absolutely serious when I say every inch of you is perfect.”

With his hands palming your bare ass it was hard to piece that together, let alone how casual and genuine his admiration seemed to be. “But you were married…”

“I meant what I said.” Andy was so matter of fact that he left no room for you to question him. While he may not be able to worship you completely tonight with his body, he planned to tell you every single thing he’d thought about you but hadn’t shared. He’d been a bystander in his past life and he wasn’t about to let that happen again.

Pulling his mouth to yours, you kissed Andy again and as your lips pressed to his, he parted them to let you taste him. The longer Andy kissed you while massaging his hands into your skin, your pulse continued to climb. It was an almost embarrassing thought, wanting to send him in the middle of the night to the store for condoms like you were both a pair of horny teenagers. With your toes barely ghosting over the bedroom floor, you couldn’t give yourself enough leverage to grind against him, and as if he could read your mind, Andy adjusted his grip to push and pull you into his clothed length. Rocking your hips with his every pull, you could feel your sex coating him as the little friction provided you with a torturous amount of attention. “I’m making a mess. So wet for you.”

His tongue traced your lips as your whimpered words poured into his mouth. He held you pressed against him and thrust his hips up off the chair, taunting your clit with a good time you clearly weren’t getting tonight. “I want the mess, sweetheart.” Andy’s lips moved across your cheek until they ghosted over the shell of your ear, his beard tickling your cheek. “I’m sorry I can’t be inside you tonight, but knowing how badly you want my cock is the most arousing thing I’ve ever heard. Let me put you to sleep another way tonight, all right?”

“Please.” Was all you could manage as you wiggled against him and if you hadn’t gasped at the ease of him picking you up and moving you onto the bed, you would have heard him him growl that he was fucking you on that chair tomorrow.

As you scooted up toward the pillows, your eyes stayed on Andy as he pulled down his boxer briefs and left them on the floor. With his hands on his hips, he shook his head and tapped your ankle. Obliged, you slowly spread your legs for him, moving your fingers up your inner thighs to find them wet with desire. “So good for me.” Andy’s tongue darted past his lips, so desperate for just a taste of you as he told himself the smart thing to do was for both of you to be responsible and wait a little longer. For now, he’d have to settle for the slow torture of his fist while his fingers were inside you.

Your body never lets you sleep past five, as if it knew AJ would be up by six expecting breakfast. With your usual in-bed slow stretching you quickly realized the warmth and weight on your naked body wasn’t from your blankets or a really vivid dream. Andy’s steady, deep breaths breeze your disheveled hair and warmed the curve of your neck. Taking the arm that was draped over you, you brought his wrist to your lips and placed a kiss on his pulse before reluctantly slipping out to head to the kitchen. Even in his sleep, Andy was looking for you. A wrinkle formed on his brow as he curled into the warm spot you’d left, his head moving to your vacant pillow with a huff. It wasn’t until you were certain that he wouldn’t wake up and you were covered in a silky robe, that you left him in bed to rest.

Andy was up just a few short minutes after you, once the bed went cold. It may have been a work day, but he only had a meeting for a case he was feeling confident about on his agenda and then a cocktail hour with the partners to welcome a new hire to the firm. With a relatively easy schedule he sent off an email to the office secretary for the non-partners and asked that the meeting be made virtual or rescheduled before getting dressed. Making it downstairs in slacks sans boxer-briefs and his slightly wrinkled undershirt, he admired the way the silk robe ghosted across the middle of your thighs and accentuated your curves with its cinched waist. He had to look away, staring at the ceiling while he approached, in an attempt to keep the blood from rushing to his cock. But when he made it to you it went out the window, instantly hard when he wrapped his arm around your waist and pressed his lips to your neck, “Morning, Sweetheart.” He kept talking, peppering kisses against your skin, “I’m waiting to hear back, but I’ll either have one virtual meeting or it will be rescheduled. We can swing by the doctor’s. I’ll go to the store and I need to get some clothes anyways.” With a flick of your gaze to his current attire you nodded. “Then, if you want and can find a babysitter, of course, maybe you can come to a work thing- cocktail hour. Only if you’d want to.”

Turning around in his arms you reached up and planted a kiss on his lips, “You changed your plans for me? I haven’t even looked at available appointments yet.”

“I made plans for us, not really changing anything if it’s just including you in my time because I want to be around you, now is it?” He was distracted and kissing you back, not even thinking about how those words would make your heart flutter. “Don’t worry about making an appointment, I’ll send you the address for my physician. He’s private practice and takes all the families from my firm. He’ll squeeze us in and get results faster.”

Swallowing you shook your head, “I doubt he’d take my crappy insurance, Andy.”

“Not how it works.” His thumb rubbed into the crease in your forehead. Andy didn’t want you worrying about anything he could take care of; money and good doctors fell into that scope. Not wanting to pressure you or infringe on your independence were two important factors for easing into this relationship, but you having self-declared crappy insurance was now filed under his list of reasons to marry you. “Don’t worry about the appointment, okay? I can take care of that. Now, I want to head out before AJ gets up or else we both know he’s going to be keeping me for breakfast and playtime, then I’m going to lose it watching you move around in this robe. I’m assuming you have some work to do yourself?” Again, you nodded, unable to speak in shock at how domestic this was and how understanding he was being. “Let me know what you decide about the cocktail hour. I’ll send you a time and address for the appointment. AJ can come, they have a little place for the kids to sit and play and the secretary keeps an eye on them.”

With a hum he pulled you flush against him, goodbye-kissing you harder and making your shocked giggle melt into a moan. It was over all too soon, Andy backing away to grab his keys and briefcase from the kitchen island but refusing to say the words. When he reached the door you called out, “Mom and Dad will take him for the day, they’re always begging to. Just, they know about you, when we pick him up they’re going to want to meet you.”

Swallowing his nerves, he nodded and closed the space between you once more. “I’m living with their daughter and grandson, I think that’s appropriate.” You bit your bottom lip and he rubbed it out of the grip of your teeth. “I’m nervous but it’s a good nervous, Sweetheart. I want them to like me and see how much both of you mean to me. Ask them if they want us to pick up take out and we’ll have dinner together. All of you can ask me as many questions as you’d like, all right?”

Following him to the door, you watched Andy do his silly backwards walk to his car where he refused to look away from you until the last possible minute. Your time with the lawyer had always been at night and the prospect of being with him in daylight and in his element flustered you. Then came the rhythmic thumb of AJ scooting down the stairs on his bottom and you turned around prepared for the usual questions about when Daddy was coming home.

After you called your parents and started your day, you tried to explain to AJ in a few different ways that Andy was staying. Each time was met with new questions: Where would he sleep? Was it forever? Would he be joining lunch time picnics? By the time you were dropping him off with your mom he was so excited you knew your parents were in for an ear full and likely going to load up on questions of their own. To your surprise, your mother had reached out and stroked your cheek, whispering that you looked beautiful in her native tongue. Andy would say the same after you stepped out of your car at the doctor’s office. He would repeat it again at the pharmacy as you picked up the new baby-preventing essentials. Then you felt it in the way he looked at you across the little bistro table on a beautiful brick patio while you had your first non-dinner meal together. Wrapping your arms around his waist as he pressed you to your car door he sighed, “Did you decide if you’re coming to meet my colleagues tonight?”

“Seems only fair since you’re meeting my parents, but what do I wear to a cocktail hour full of lawyers?” Your eyes fell down to the jeans and blouse you donned, just as casual as his jeans and henley.

“Do you have a simple dinner dress? If not something that’s interview-ish?” The corners of your mouth turned up as you thought about the handful of cute dresses in your closet, unloved but that you’d purchased in hopes of getting back into the dating game at some point or other after having AJ. “What’s that look for?”

“You’ll see later.” Sticking your tongue out he groaned and kissed you again before reluctantly parting ways. “Now, go home and unpack the suitcases I saw in your back seat and have that virtual meeting. I cleared closet and dresser space for you this morning.” You left out that you had moved nearly all of your clothes to the closet in your office and only the top drawer of the dresser held your lingerie and pajamas. With Andy around you hoped you wouldn’t need more than that in the bedroom.

Andy passed the time unpacking, picking up around the house, and eating his leftovers before the meeting he took in your office. His two colleagues had lingered on after the client signed out to ask where he was and if he was coming tonight. He’d mentioned he was seeing someone, now they were catching on it was serious. It shouldn’t have surprised him. The few that knew why he’d left law and why he’d come back, and the fewer still that actually knew Laurie or Jacob, were always understanding about why he was so private about his private life. Letting you into his world felt easy, but as the clock ticked closer to five, the lawyer felt protective over what they might say or ask, offering up a plea to whatever higher power that his coworkers wouldn’t compare his past to his present.

You’d slipped into the house while he was in the shower, admiring the suit he’d laid out on the bed which he’d made with fresh sheets. After shooing him away several times, you chose a dark navy chiffon cocktail dress that would match, hiding it under a sandy lapel coat. The time you’d been out alone had been spent getting your hair trimmed and nails done, wanting to look nice next to him. It seemed to pay off even though he hadn’t seen the dress because the entire drive, he kept reaching over to touch your cheek or neck, constantly telling you how beautiful you looked before he would take your hand for a kiss.

Boston had a lot of bars and restaurants, but you never got out much, especially not to a place as polished as this. When you walked in your coat was checked and heads turned. You looked from the two speechless hostesses to Andy and your immediate worries went away. Bending down, he pressed a kiss to your temple and groaned in your ear. “So that’s why you wouldn’t let me know what you were wearing? Trying to torture me for not letting you cum last night?”

Your whole body shivered and he took your hand, leading you toward a waving crowd of suits. Lacing your fingers through his so you didn’t start fidgeting with your necklace, he let people approach while you sipped on a glass of wine and he held a beer he hardly touched. It was more talking than you expected but everyone seemed overjoyed to see Andy beaming. You admired the way he stood tall, his shoulders back and chin up as you answered a few questions about your job and family. He was content being a fly on the wall, admiring how charmed everyone was by you and how you seemed most content hugging into his side while you listened to them talk about their own families or how much they admired both of your work ethic. No one said anything about Laurie or Jacob, but as you excused yourself to the bathroom, he was met with firm handshakes and claps on the shoulder, knowing glances that they were happy he had found you.

As if that wasn’t his cue to leave, then the chime on his phone was. With an email from the doctor giving you both the all clear, Andy gave his goodbyes on behalf of the pair of you, not a full lie when you both did have a dinner to get to. Luckily, the bathroom was by coat checkout and no one would be looking for either of you or notice if or when you did leave… and he had a plan.

When you opened the bathroom door Andy was walking toward you, a contagious smile on his face. “Came to get you.”

“Oh?” Any confusion was met with understanding as he stepped into the bathroom behind you, shutting and locking the door. “Oh!”

“Mmhm. You check your email?” With a nod, you swallowed knowing what he meant, your hands covering his as he planted them on your hips and led you to the marble sink with its massive counter and bright mirror. It was more like an expensive hotel’s bathroom than a bar’s but it was still a bathroom. “Do you know how hard it was to not say fuck it and take you last night?”

“It wasn’t easy for me either. I mean… look at you.” Your words were a whisper, completely aware of how hard he was when his thigh was pressed between your legs pinning you to the counter. Andy chuckled, immediately reminded of that hungry look you gave him when he stood in front of you naked last night and you obediently opened your legs for him. Seeing you wet and needy like that was going to be burned into his brain for the rest of his life.

“I meant what I said last night.” He swallowed, blue eyes piercing yours as he reached in his pocket and pulled out a condom. “The first time you cum for me I’m going to be inside you, Sweetheart.”

“Andy this isn’t fair! I want you and… we deserve better than a bathroom.” Covering his hand and taking the condom, dropping it back into his pocket. The act alone taking every ounce of responsible adulting you had left in your system and the second it was in his pocket you were cursing yourself as your cunt throbbed around nothing.

He pressed his forehead to yours and picked you up, setting you on the counter and bring your lips to his in a heated kiss that brought back thoughts of the sound of him getting off onto your stomach after you took over stroking him. When he pulled away he was breathless and your body was, once again, a live wire. “Oh, I know. Can’t have you sitting at dinner with your parents all fucked out, can we?” Your mouth fell open in shock and a moan poured out when he slipped his fingers under the dress to stroke your core over your panties. “Just want to make sure you’re wet as hell for the second we’re home and AJ’s asleep because I won’t lose another second before I’m inside you.” Pulling your panties to the side, Andy’s fingertips circled and pinched your swollen clit, eliciting another whimper from your lips. “I want you as needy as you were last night.”

“O-okay…” It was almost pathetic how quickly you nodded, hips rocking into his fingers, desperate for friction. “Let’s get to dinner then, like… yesterday.” When he pulled his hands away and stepped back to help you hop off the counter you took the opportunity to crash into him, loving on him exactly how he’d just tortured you. You tugged on his tie, pulling his lips to yours while your other hand stroked him over his slacks. It wasn’t until he was gasping and groaning into your mouth that you pulled away. “Just remember, big guy, two can play this game.”

Nipping at his lip, you sauntered back with a giggle as he stood there staring at you. His shocked smile quickly morphed into a smirk, knowing exactly what you were thinking while being simultaneously fascinated by how equal you were to him in this desperate sexual need for each other. “Trust me, Sweetheart, I’m counting on it.”

A/N: Y’all make responsible choices with new partners especially, please. 🤣  I know this fluff is self indulgent, but what do I do? Cut it and give you outtakes upon request? Nah. Here’s the whole thing (it’s actually not, I did cut it a bit) and you just get to have the whole of the domestic fluff and needy hoe shit that isn’t hoe hours. I ALMOST FEEL BAD FOR NOT GIVING YOU P IN V BUT BE PATIENT FRIENDS! Seriously though, Part IV? Do you want to know what meeting the parents is like? Should we skip to the hoe hours I deprived you of? Both? ORRRR Do you want an AJ’s first morning/full day with Andy? 

I love this obnoxiously long chapter because it’s a new perspective on these two because people are multifaceted ... I hope it didn’t disappoint y’all 🥺👉🏼👈🏼

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Sam, 46

#46 -- on the other side of the door i was gonna use this to write more of the agatha christie au but then i had this idea and it was like. supposed to be Better than this but i am writing these with vibes only and not braincells so yeehaw. basically i wrote this w the main goal of zainab reading a Concept i was too tired to explain over texts and i guess now all of you can read it too

Sam watches the angry dent appear in the middle of the cell door, shoulder-shaped enough that he has it in him to wince.

He's not too banged up, just bone-exhausted. He's pretty sure these assholes are just holding him here to say they can; it's almost insulting how little damage he's taken, given how easily he was overpowered, but that's part of the job, he guesses. Part of his non-superpowered, regular-old-dude job, pulling the rug out from under his legs fast enough that his wings don't open in time for him not to hit the floor.

Or something. Poetry and metaphor have never been his strong suit and Sam's been leaning his bruised temple against this cell door for a good seventy-two hours, and it has been seventy-two hours of dull grey monotony and the uncertainty of Bad Guys Over There In That Other Room Probably to keep him company, until like, two seconds ago, when Bucky tried to rhinoceros his way through five inches of titanium. At least the dent gives the place some character.

"Hm," comes Buck's voice, muffled from the other side of the block.

"She ain't budging, huh," says Sam.

"I'm gonna have to get creative."

Bucky's voice, which he had somehow convinced himself he was not going to hear anytime soon. It's flat and sardonic and comin' out like nothing in the world is wrong. Down-to-business, punch-our-way-through-problems, can't-crack-a-smile-at-one-of-Sam's-most-excellent-jokes Bucky Barnes materialized with a sudden whispered Sam? after seventy-two miserable hours where Sam had to reflect on his own mortality, reflect, also, on the fact that he followed this lead without telling anyone like a dumbass because Walters was concerned about press, worry about the definite human trafficking that probably is going on in places exactly like this that he was not successful at thwarting, and have little to no way of contacting his family or his professional work partner to let them know he was alive.

Sam is definitely too exhausted to cry, but he thinks maybe in another version of these events, he would have.

"Creative," says Sam, out loud. His voice sounds reedy 'cause he hasn't used it in like three days. Which is another point against these guys; Sam's got a great voice, thank you very much. Mrs. Landry from his parents' church used to say he should do choir in school.

He didn't, but like, still.

"Not your strong suit," Bucky agrees, which Sam disagrees with on principle. There's some vague grunting, and a muttered swear word. Sam wonders if Bucky's trying to pry his literal fingers under the whateverthefuckton door; it wouldn't be the first time. A gunshot sounds, coming from far away.

"Bucky --" Sam starts.

"If you're having a hard time with your memory, I'll gladly point out how me and AJ kicked your ass in Pictionary last month."

"You need leverage," says Sam.

"I know I need leverage."

"What if you punched the grate out? You can do titanium, right?"

More muffled noises, then Bucky says, "Nope. Had to give them the arm."

"What?" A very tame way of expressing Sam's actual sentiment, which is the mental equivalent of that rhino running right into him, personally.

"It's fine. Firewalled anyway."

"Firewalled?!"

"And Yelena's getting it back. With Ayo's help."

Sam pushes himself against the corner of the cell, "What the hell is that supposed to mean!"

There's a small grated window, smooth titanium also, that peaks in and out of the cell; Bucky's face appears in this now. Another two gunshots sound.

"Hi," he says,

"Bucky --"

"It's fine. Just Yelena. Is it load bearing?"

Sam gapes. "The wall?"

"The door, yes," Bucky says, a bit impatiently. Sam can't really see much of him; just a pair of thick frowny eyebrows hovering in blank space. "Yelena can bench more than most, but the expression is usually --"

"Are you seriously asking this after you tried to knock it down?"

Bucky ignores this, "Follow up question --"

"Bucky!"

"Gimme your belt, I wanna try something."

The urgency of the situation is not lost on Sam; he takes his suit's utility belt off, very strategically devoid of all its weaponry and with the vibranium glittering in its mesh weave, and shoves it through the crack between those grated bars. He watches it appear again, looped around one of the bars -- then, to the continued echoes of skirmish above them, hears a low, built-up creaking noise.

It's satisfying in the way things you've come to expect are. Life just doesn't quite feel right when Bucky can't shoulder his way through situations involving dungeon-tier bad guys and guns . Sam feels the relief well up inside his gut, and almost forgets to lift his arms up over his head at the last second.

The door warps, caves, rips away with a metal scream.

He has a self-deprecating quip on the tip of his tongue, more vinegar than he's got any right to be but also Sam is tired, worn out, pissed off with himself. It tangles up and doesn't get nowhere. Bucky is, very suddenly, in front of him. He is wide-eyed and bruised on the jaw, bloodied at the collar of his shirt like he's just got out of a scrap fight, missing his fucking arm in a way his tone didn't give for a second, and before Sam can open his mouth he is being pulled into a very rough, very sudden, bone crushing hug. 

Seventy-two hours, Sam's brain supplies belatedly. And there's been some weird shit going on recently.

Three mississippis pass in the dark of the dungeon. Sam works through his exhaustion to process, and with very minutely trembling arms hugs Bucky back. 

[estrellami-1]

Lmao I probably did tag you in this a while ago but I’ll do it again! 😂

Honestly I don’t remember what I said last time, so in no order whatsoever, here’s my ten:

1. Tangled

2. Beauty and the Beast (lately I’ve been partial to the live action one solely because of the new songs)

3. Captain America: The First Avenger

4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

5. Not a movie but I love the TV show Leverage

6. Also the TV show White Collar. I’ll binge both of these

7. The Martian

8. This is getting difficult because I literally just don’t watch anything…. Maybe Bourne Identity?

9. I guess Italian Job (anyone who can guess my taste in movies is a witch istg I’ll watch almost anything once)

10. The Matrix

Why was that so hard for me 😂 tagging @every-aj-needs-an-angel @i-less-than-three-you @nburkhardt @thatonegreyghost @ghosttotheparty and anyone else who wants to do this! ❤️

Rules: post 10 of your favourite comfort movies then tag 10 people.

I got tagged most recently by @every-aj-needs-an-angel (but I also think I got tagged a while back by a few people and I fell way behind on tags)

1. Pride and Prejudice (2005) - I mean we all know why. If you don’t:

2. Captain America: Civil War - I won’t be able to apologize for this. It’s just the most romantic bullshit a person can see. A man going against his country, the world, his friends, for his long lost love? Sigh.

3. Miracle - It’s hockey. I dunno what else I have to say.

4. The Breakfast Club - If you haven’t watched it, how.

5. Beauty and the Beast - This has been my favorite original Disney princess movie since I was maybe four and I learned to read? I thought Belle was amazing and I genuinely told my mom at six years old that I hoped my husband had a big library. What a dreamer.

6. The Princess Diaries - My sister and I watch this almost once a month. I blame naming Eddie’s daughter after Mia Thermopolis because I had just watched it again.

7. Matilda - This one is depressing when you think about it, but my family used to call me Matilda because I would prefer to just sit in my room and read. And then Harry Styles wrote the song and I was like…hmmm that’s something to unpack…and then I just started watching the movie when I was sad.

8. 10 Things I Hate About You - I mean.

9. Hook - I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this movie, but it’s gotta be in the triple digits.

10. Jumanji (1995) - I don’t have anything against the new one, but the original is just unparalleled. You just can’t compete with Robin Williams.

Now, keep in mind that I RARELY watch anything at all, so when I’m watching these, something is very wrong 😂

No pressure tags: @simplebtromance @zerokrox-blog @izzy2210 @estrellami-1 (I think you may have tagged me in this a while ago too so ignore this if you did 😭) @legitcookie @sidekick-hero @steves-strapcollection @wormdebut (or work on your gd fic ffs) @wynnyfryd @messessentialist

[stevenbasic]

The Tale of Queen Angie, Chapter 2

10 months later.

“So who keeps texting you?” Angie asked, trying to hide her annoyance as she did her makeup at the vanity, brushing on the heavy mascara that made her eyes pop. He had recently restored the makeup table for her, rebuilding a nice old piece that had caught her eye at a yard sale a few months back. It’s not that she had very particular tastes in furniture; she just wanted to keep him busy, focused on something for her...

From his spot on her queen-sized bed, AJ quickly reached over to the nightstand, pushing aside the tissues and lotion, and silenced his phone. Even though it was nearly noon, and a Tuesday, he still hadn’t gotten out of bed.  “It’s...nobody, babe.” “Don’t ‘nobody babe’ me,” she said, her eyes flashing to meet his in the mirror, “Remember? We talked about this. About keeping secrets, from me?” To that, AJ laughed. To sound aloof, though,  was a half-hearted effort,. She’s joking, right? It’s not like it’s another girl, ever. It’s just th- Well, better not push it. “S-so sorry, Angie,” he apologized, not wanting a confrontation again over something so silly, “It was the guys from work. They want me to come down to Stoney’s to watch the game.” 

He had answered honestly, not even sure he was capable of lying to her at this point. AJ had, since reconnecting with Angie at the reunion earlier this year, really fallen hard for her. And it wasn’t just the tits, which admittedly were initially the main attraction. She was also smart, driven, and there was an aggression about her that, these days, had really become appealing to him. He’d never would have considered himself a...what did they call it?...a “beta”, but there was something about the way Angie took charge, managed things, told him what to do that really, yeah, turned him on. More and more every day, in fact.  And not just in bed - though, haha, she did that too - but in life in general. Their romance started out with her as the aggressor, and as time went on it had become even more and more one-sided. She had been an infatuated admirer of his back in high school, but if he was being honest it was now really her that held most all the hand in this relationship. But he hadn’t seen the guys much lately, and he kinda wanted to get drunk and commiserate with them. Since losing the stadium job to that big new girly construction company, his business had taken a sour turn. He’d had to let most of his crews go, including a bunch of old friends. 

“They’re down there drinking, before noon, on a Tuesday?” Angie asked, as she saw him watching her, primping in the mirror in her silk dressing robe, “And these people are your friends?” 

“Well, yeah,” he answered, immediately feeling sheepish, immediately feeling like the little boy trying to explain himself to his mom. She had a way of doing that, making him feel infantile and not like the kinda-successful, twenty-nine year-old adult male he was, “but I’d just be going for a beer or two…” So...dammit... why was he getting hard..?

Annoyance was bubbling up in Angie Wade’s chest. He knew she had taken the day off, so they could spend the day together. And he wanted to go see his moron buddies, drink cheap beer and watch sports? True, she hadn’t paid him much attention this morning, and he was probably feeling a little neglected. I guess I should do something about that, she thought wryly. 

“Well, tell them you're busy,” she answered, applying a dramatic shade to her eyelids in the mirror. She was almost done. “Or better yet, just ignore them. They’ll get the message.”

At that, she stood up from her makeup chair and turned around in her short, thin robe of light rose, cinched at the waist. She was facing him now where he laid, half-sitting, on the bed. He had his grey sweatpants back on but was otherwise bare. She watched his eyes move up her body, pausing - predictably - on her well-presented chest before struggling to break free of the magnetic pull of her curves and meet her gaze. 

A part of him had really wanted to go meet up with his friends. To get out of bed and go do ….something normal. He’d been getting out of the house, aside from the less-and-less frequent work, not that often these days. But that desire to leave was small, and fleeting. No sooner had he really grasped how she’d made herself up today - just for him - than the thought had already vanished. Replaced, in its entirety, by her. “Put the phone down,” she told him. “Oh, uh...yeah,” he obeyed, dropping his phone, forgotten, on the nightstand and watching as she slowly began to walk towards the bed, “They’ll, uh...they’ll figure it out, I g-guess...” “Good boy,“ she purred, giving him a crooked smile that told him she was pleased with his behavior. Angie loved the way he always shuddered and grew quiet when she said that, when she called him a “good boy”. It was a thing, these days, women starting to treat their partners like children. She’d read it in the blogs she followed, heard it from friends and from the girls at work. They had all begun to like it; men, for the most part, seemed to be slowly giving up these centuries-old, macho defenses, letting themselves be vulnerable, allowing themselves to enjoy the pampering that women had started to learn was the quickest way to gain leverage and control in their relationships. And for Angie, well...she loved the way he responded to both her silent and explicit commands, just for the opportunity to hear her say those words. Good boy. He really did enjoy when she mothered him, she knew.  It was kinda pervy but it worked.

“Because we’re busy today, you and me,” she continued, still approaching the side of the bed where he lay, ”Today’s our day off together....” She looked down at him, tried to keep from smirking; already his cock had started to tent his sweatpants. “Not that you’ve been working much anyways,” she added, unable to help herself and speaking plainly. 

It was true. With more and more construction bids falling through during the 11th hour, his work kept him less and less busy, though he felt constantly exhausted from the stress. He had been spending lots of time here, at her place, remodeling her condo for her, sleeping over. His bank accounts had nearly dried to nothing, and the lease on his downtown apartment was up this month. Plan was to officially move in with her, soon. Angie said she didn’t need any money for rent.

Finally, she arrived at his bedside, to his left. She let him look up at her - she knew she looked impressive from this angle - and smiled down at him. She watched as he took the hem of her robe between his fingers, played with its slick, soft fabric. He was looking at her full thigh. She sat down, on the edge of the mattress aside him, and put her hand on his thin, tattooed chest. 

“Uh, yeah…” AJ finally replied, these little derisive comments about his work situation irking him less and less as time went on, “I’ve got another day to kill…I guess I can relax...”

“Well, you do have work to do today, baby,” Angie informed him, tracing little circles with her finger across his once-mighty pecs. She had told him to stop going to the gym early in their relationship - muscular guys were going out of fashion, she’d said - and it showed. He was naturally a lean person, and the strong physique he had spent years building and been known for had mostly disappeared. She liked that, the weak, small-boned look, she’d found. Her friends, like that gym-rat Missy (who just got a new job), could probably squat more than him now, haha. “I have jobs for you.”

“I thought I was pretty much all done?” His face screwed up in concentration as he tried to remember the long list of tasks. “I finished the kitchen island, a-and installed the new shower head yesterd-“ 

“Not that kind of work, sweetie,” she corrected, “Relationship work. I have the day off, I got all pretty for you. I bought some new goodies at Victoria’s Secret yesterday,” she smiled down at him, watching him try to control the little eager twitches of his, “Well, technically, you bought them for me…. but either way….”

She ran the fingers of her left hand up past his right collarbone, sliding up his throat, looking at the tender, bare, smoothly unadorned skin, and thought to herself with a secret, silent giggle: we need to get you a new tattoo...

Today she’d decided that she wanted to have some fun with him. They had all day together and she really wanted to feel strong and powerful. She had seen Melissa’s Instagram earlier, and while she would never admit to feeling lesser, she couldn’t deny that she really felt the need now to flex some feminine muscles. She looked down at him, and dark thoughts went through her head. 

“We’ve got alllll day together,” she continued, her free hand now gently tugging on the belt which held her robe closed, “and I want to make you ache.”

She smiled proudly as, as soon as her right breast began to come into view, he groaned. He was already so turned on, she could see that, like some brainless ape. She’d read the manuals, all those domme blogs. With everything that was going on with men these days, femdom was getting very popular. Some seemed sort of silly - so much leather haha - but there were lots of things she wanted to try, get his mind in the right place. She wanted to make him even more submissive than he was already, it seemed, naturally becoming. Showing him her breast was a start. 

“Don’t you want to show me how much you love me today, hmm?” Angie purred, peeling her robe back further, now, exposing her G-cup breasts in the new push-up, black strapless bra she’d purchased, “How much you love...them?”

“Oh, god, Angie…” AJ moaned, already overcome as he watched as she dropped her robe behind herself, off her shoulders.  Her breasts looked fantastic, enormous, pressed perfectly together into mind-melting cleavage. Her long dark hair had fallen softly onto her chest…

...but in a practiced move she pushed it back, over her pale shoulders, affording him a better view. 

“You don’t need to show me your endurance today, baby,” she said, as she settled closer on the bed to him, pulling his sweatpants down to his knees, “I’m not interested in how long you can last.” Acknowledging his erection with a proud smile, she pulled in closer still and grasped it with her left hand. She heard him gasp, and pulled herself in closer still, to bring her big right tit right close to his face. “Today I want you to show me how weak you are for me…and my breasts…”

AJ’s mouth dropped open, his eyes goggled at the cantaloupe-sized breast of his brunette girlfriend, now just inches from his nose and mouth. She had such big, perfect breasts, he marveled, with smooth ivory skin and just the fewest of freckles. She smelled like fresh fruit, he always thought, and today her perfume had him immediately fixated. He did feel weak for her, he thought, he always did, in bed. She just had this way...and those tits...

“Look what I’ve done to you already,” she said, the pride in her voice masking a haughty disdain as she slowly began to stroke him in her fist. She smiled as, predictably, he let out a little whine and opened his mouth wider. He was staring right at her big boob, unblinking. Tit men, she marveled, they’re so easy.

She shifted her left shoulder in towards him, now bringing her left breast closer. He looked from one, to the other, still gape-mouthed like a guppy. “Today I want them to make you cum over and over and over,” she said, wobbling them just enough to bring ripples through her alabaster flesh, elicit another whine from him, “I want them to be the only thing on your mind allllll daaaay. I want you to be dumb and docile, I want you to drool over them. I want you to fucking worship them. ”

“y-y-y-yuh...yuh, okay…” AJ responded, dumbly ogling her tits, passively frozen in place. He’d learned to keep his hands to himself, times like this. She would take care of it. 

“‘Yuh okay’ what?” she asked him, in correction, her left hand slowing to a stop as she waited for his answer. 

“y-yuh okay goddess,” he answered.

She chuckled. She’d taught him well. “Good boy,” she commended, loving the worshipful fealty she’d gotten from him over time; it made her feel good, fed her ballooned ego. She resumed her ministrations to his just-about-average cock, thinking: Does Melissa have someone calling her ‘Goddess’?? I think not...

”oh my god you’re so big,” AJ offered, as she placed her right breast once again straight in front of his face. 

“Mmhm…” she purred, feeling the urge to just squash her tit onto his mouth and nose, start to smother him, “I’m the big Titty Monster, come to eat you…”

He groaned again, his eyes fluttered in ecstasy. 

God, so submissive, she marveled. If all men, honestly, were secretly getting to be like this, she thought, girls are going to rule the world. “Tell me again,” she commanded, breathing in, pushing her tit even closer to him, so that soft flesh swelled over the cup. She kept her skin smooth, soft, moisturized, for times just like this. The few, faint stretch marks, she felt, were just a testament to her womanly size.

“y-you’re so big…” he complied, repeating himself, in total awe now. 

“Yes, I am,” she agreed, “a G-cup.” She had originally thought she’d just make him come quick - and with where she had him at the moment she could do it in an instant. But she was actually enjoying this. “And you like that, hm? You like big. Big boobs. Big girls. Maybe I should start going to the gym, get reeeeeal big?” she posited, looming over him taller now, “Get bigger than you? You’d like that too, wouldn’t you?”

“oh, god, yes,” he groaned. 

Angie smiled. Again, so easy. She’d seen it, knew it. It was getting plain as day to her. But she didn’t fully understand it all yet. What is up with guys these days, wanting their women big? Bigger than them? And she was feeling it too, she realized. She’d love to see him start to just shrink up, right in front of her eyes. Something was happening, something was going on. And she was going to figure this out. 

“What is it, baby? Tell me. What is it that you like, thinking about me being bigger?” she asked sweetly, continuing her slow, rhythmic attentions between his legs. 

His eyes were still planted on her tit, staring at her bra. “....b-b-breassts….” he moaned. 

She laughed. What a simple, predictable answer from a simple, predictable man. “Ohhhh..!” she giggled, teasing him, “Am I not big enough for you? Should I get implants? Big ones, like Amelia? Hm?”

From AJ, no answer.

“Hmmm, no. I think I know...I know what you want,” she continued, wickedly aware now of where his mind was,  “Maybe I should let you get me pregnant, so they swell up..?” She smiled, feeling his body tense up, quiver under her. She’d struck a chord. “So my milk comes in?”

Beneath her AJ groaned, loudly. 

So that’s another thing, hm? she laughed to herself. Typical, not surprising. Men wanted back on the tit, it just made sense, and she’d suspected it for a while now with him. She could use this, she mused. Oh yes, this was good...

“I saw how you woke up sucking your thumb last night,” she asked him, sliding her right hand up over his jaw, his cheek, to his lips, “Were you thinking about me?”

She put a finger in his mouth, watched his eyes go wide, his whole body spasm, again. “It’s okay, sweetie...” she offered, “...suck.” 

His eyes fluttered, he was close. There was no stopping it now. He sealed his lips around her forefinger, and began to suck. 

“There you go….” Angie purred, in a satisfied drawl. She felt his hips start to clench, and suddenly it was time.  She sped up in her stroking, to bring him home.  This was it. It’s too much for him. “Come for me,” she whispered, her hand beating him now, “Come for mommy…”

In a burst, in a groan, in a tensing spasm that shook the bed, AJ came in her hand. His mouth loosened its suction on her finger, so he could bleat his pleasures, but his eyes stayed wide on her tit. She milked him through his climax, purring little, maternal adulations along the way. Finally, his eyes closed, and he sank back into his pillow. 

She sat back, up straight, regarded the scene with a crooked, knowing smile. She wiped her hand on his belly. 

“Clean yourself up, get yourself ready,” she told him, standing up now after allowing him his few quiet moments of shame, “We’ve got all day together, baby…”

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[leverage-commentary]

Leverage Season 2, Episode 15, The Maltese Falcon Job, Audio Commentary Transcript

Dean: Hi I'm Dean Devlin, Executive Producer and Director of this episode.

John: I'm John Rogers, Executive producer and Writer.

Chris: I'm Chris Downey, Executive Producer, and this is the Maltese Falcon Job. Part two of our season two finale.

John: And this is a lot of fun, this was- this was born of an episode we never wrote. Just- we really wanted to just put them on their pins.

Chris: Right.

John: Just really knock them on their ass and so- were you handheld there? Handheld whenever there's a problem, right?

Dean: Well this is actually a 360 steadicam. And what we're trying to do is let- their entire world is spinning out of control, so we just wanted this just to keep spinning around. They don't know where they're gonna land.

John: This is a fast, hard reset. The second- the second half of the season finale last year, we kinda eased into it, we reset the locations.

Dean: Here we throw you right into it.

Chris: Right.

John: Yeah, you best be paying attention and you really see when, you know- they're the uber team. You know, you really need to put them onto the wall, and the FBI and Interpol in this situation, they're utterly lost. And Interpol, it was interesting, it was something we were saying last- cause it was Mark Sheppard credit in the last episode. We were looking for a villain, and the problem is we kept coming up with this recurring, separate villain. We’re like, ‘We've never met this person before, we don't care. The person you really want it to be is Sterling! But he's an investigator.’

Chris: ‘He's an insurance investigator, what does that have to do with insurance? We have to find a way to make this about insurance?’

John: Oh man, we killed ourselves.

Dean: Do you remember what you said John? The night-?

Chris: It was between you two, right?

John: It was us. I Skyped you at like 11 o’clock at night, you had come back from scouting-

Dean: And we were talking, and the idea came up, ‘What if we just made him interpol?’ Do you remember what you said?

John: No.

Dean: You said, ‘We are either coming up with the best idea we’ve ever come up with, or we’re both reall,y really tired right now.’

[Laughter]

Chris: And it was.

John: It was great.

Chris: As soon as I heard it, I said, ‘That’s a great idea.’ Because we needed to give him a wider mandate.

John: Yes, if we're gonna keep them as a recurring bad guy-

Chris: Great idea.

John: And what was great is, we already shot the episode that he was in before, so we had to go back and reshoot that ending.

Dean: Here's my favorite Tara bit, of her whole arc.

John: Oh, that's right.

Dean: And this man was actually our local assistant.

[Laughter]

Chris: That was AJ.

John: Yes. And a fine actor by the way.

Dean: He did a great job.

Chris: Oh look at this shot, look at this.

John: Look at just the look he's doing. Just a good 1960s Zero Mostel take there. Yeah, ‘Oops.’

[Laughter]

Chris: Mrs. Robinson.

Dean: Comedy frame.

John: Comedy frame. We got like nine takes of Christian reacting to that by the way.

Dean: And my favorite is they both originally put their heads back, and then only Christian’s head came back out again, but we didn't have time for that. 

Chris: Oh I love that.

John: We can't break for comedy too much here, cause you've got the momentum going. 

Dean: Yeah.

John: And you're like, you have to keep resetting - they are in trouble. This, by the way, great hack taught to us by Apollo Robbins.

Chris: Yes.

John: Our thief consultant took us through how you can get access to the hotel computer system through the back of your television.

Chris: Yes.

John: This is a real thing. Please don’t-

Dean: Please don't try this at home.

Chris: Please don’t try this.

John: Don't try this at home, but most hotels have internet enabled televisions now, and that allows you a backdoor into the- 

Chris: It's a good example, too, of our team is so good at what they do, that we always try and look for ways to take away all their tools and find a clever way they have to use whatever's around them to-

John: Yeah

Chris: -you know, get their information.

John: Yeah, and that's again, constrained in time, constrained in space.

Dean: And that little porno name here, we had to get clearance on. 

John: I know. We came up with so many pornos that were real. That we came up with the most ridiculous porno name, ‘Nope that's a real one, that’s a real one.’ What did we land with, Indie Panties Day?

[Laughter]

John: Yeah, there's also- I wonder if we got it on the DVD, a really creepy, awkward beat after they’ve watched the porno that Aldis and Beth did, just very. 

Chris: That's a nice little viral video.

John: Yeah we’ll have to find that. 

Dean: Yeah.

John: Oh, and a beautiful three way pass, by the way. That was a tough shot, you know, in a crowded-

Dean: And it's a callback from the Zanzibar Job. 

John: Yes.

Dean: Where they did a similar three way.

John: Yeah. 

Dean: And I love this local actor.

John: Oh man, he's fantastic.

Dean: Harold rocked it.

John: ‘Yes, it was delicious.’ Yeah no, Eliot's impatience. This, by the way- getting a hotel key without your ID, I was a little fuzzy on whether it would work or not. I had written it, and I was like ‘Ah, am I kinda cheating?’ So I went to a hotel and did it. 

[Laughter]

John: Two days before we actually did this.

Chris: You did?

John: Yes. I won't tell you what hotel because they shouldn't have done it, but I got a hotel room key that way.

Chris: That's great.

John: Yeah. It's amazing what you can do if you have no fear of prosecution.

[Laughter]

John: ‘Oh, I'm doing a television show.’ And this was tough. We had to split them up, we had to figure out what the geography was- oh he hates Sterling so much.

[Laughter]

John: And Mark Sheppard just teeing off, just- 

Dean: Mark is delicious in this part, man. 

John: Yes.

Dean: I'm telling you, I could just watch him play this guy all day long.

John: Yeah, and what's great is Richard Kind, kind of, really kind of justifying, really doing the evil speech of evil, ‘He's a good mayor.’

Chris: Yeah.

John: And he was the one who came up with, ‘I’m good for Bellbridge.’

Chris: ‘I was good for Bellbridge.’

John:  ‘I'm- no matter what I did, I did my job, you know.’

Chris: I like, too, that we have Nate and the mayor both- 

John: Both drinking.

Chris: Both drinking.

Dean: Yeah.

John: I think that was on the day we came up with that, where Nate would get the booze from. 

Dean: Right.

John: Same place. I think we were just- cause this is the same hotel room. That was the fun of this episode, it was figuring out all the identical space- the fact that all hotel rooms are identical.

Chris: Right.

John: And that we suddenly realized, ‘Wait that means we can shoot in one and just redress.’ This is a long ass speech, this was a tough day.

Dean: And again done in a one-er.

John: Yes.

Dean: So the degree of difficulty for poor Mark was very, very high, but he knocked it out again.

John: He's really abused in television. Cause I will tell you right now, a lot of show runners will be like, ‘I have two and a half of impossible bullshit, get me Mark Sheppard in here.’

Dean: Right.

Chris: He's- I think he went from here, he was- he did the- I guess that three part CSI-

John: Yeah.

Chris: Where they had all the CSIs in one link and he was the bad guy in that, and he works.

John: He's a great- he really in that British actor tradition, yeah. 

Chris: Yeah.

John: And this- this bio of this arms dealer is pretty much just a bio of an arms dealer we took. I'm not gonna tell you who, because it was Chris’s idea and if you're angry, you should take your vengeance on him and his family.

[Laughter]

John: And not me, I am a big fan of arms dealers.

Chris: Paul Blackthorne, great- what is he-?

John: Well he had done Dresden Files, I knew him from that. 

Chris: Dresden Files.

John: But he's, you know, nailed the accent, and he's also really tall, he's got a physically imposing presence. 

Chris: Yeah.

John: And Tim’s tall, and it's really hard sometimes, to find the villains that can kind of, you know. And this was a great scene, and really one of the few times that the team lays into Nate. And I like, by the way, Nate’s getting more and more rumpled. Everyone else is kind of pulling it together, and he's just getting rougher and rougher looking.

Chris: Didn’t we have some weather here?

Dean: On the outtakes reel that's actually on this DVD, you'll see some funny outtakes from this scene.

Chris: With the weather right?

Dean: With the weather and Tim’s hair.

[Laughter]

Chris: Oh wow.

John: Oh right, even Chris is having a problem here and he's in a ponytail. Yeah the wind- the whole day we were shooting this we had thunderstorms coming through. 

Dean: Right.

John: So we were literally, ‘It's sunny. Go, go, go!’ And running down and getting the exteriors, yeah. 

Chris: Yeah.

John: Yeah we banged this out fast, man.

Dean: And yet they really nailed it. Again, when our actors dig in, they find gold.

John: And this was a big moment, this was- this is something I think that people sometimes ask, ‘Why does Eliot do this?’ Eliot has made himself a promise, this is his job, he will keep them safe.

Chris: Right.

Dean: And Nate realizes-

John: That's all he has.

Dean: Nate realizes for the first time he's actually let his team down.

John: Yeah.

Dean: And now he feels like he has to make it up to them.

John: Well, you know, when Parker does it. 

Dean: Yeah.

John: I mean that's the thing, Parker never gives- expresses- she’ll tease, she’ll express sarcasm, but disappointment- you know, ‘Be the person we came back for.’ She's referencing the season opener.

Dean: Right.

John: And that's the problem, is addiction- he's allowed himself to be- he's no longer the guy who used to chase them.

[Silence]

John: That's me drinking my Guinness, don't mind me.

[Laughter]

John: Oh god. What would I do without booze? 

Dean: So now we come back to the hotel.

John: Was that on mic? Alright.

[Laughter]

John: So we’re back on the hotel. 

Dean: And again, our clue from the previous episode of the Maltese Falcon.

Chris: Really key to watch these two back to back folks.

Dean: Oh, now this is-

Chris: I mean, maybe get a sandwich, but don't do much more than that.

Dean: This, I think, is one of my favorite bullet time shots that we've ever done. 

John: This was not as- not quite as insane as- and America thanks you for Beth in the French maid outfit.

Chris: The french maid.

Dean: It’s after this gag.

John: Yeah. Not quite as insane as the- by the way, this moment is based on a comedy club in Winnipeg, when- where the comics would go perform, it was a contest amongst them to see how long they could go without leaving the hotel room, and without letting the maids in.

[Laughter]

Chris: Cause there was no-

John: There was nothing to do. 

Chris: Nothing to do.

John: So it was like, ‘I went 40- I went 72 hours; the maids left the towels at the door.’

Dean: Great passing out scene.

Chris: Oh there we go.

John: That man is passed out. And that looks like my bed in every stand up club I ever went at.

Dean: This was the bullet- this was a very complicated bullet time shot.

John: Is this as bad or worse than the pilot, where you did four different directions?

Dean: No, it's not as bad as the pilot, but the timing of it is hard because of the extras and the switching of directions.

John: Yeah. So we start with one-

Dean: And we were using a different steadicam artist who had never done this before. 

John: Oh, that’s right.

Dean: So we had to teach Norbert how to do it while we were doing it.

Chris: Oh, that's right. 

Dean: It was very tough.

Chris: Cause our camera guy had a-

Dean: It was the one day Gary Camp was actually sick.

John: Yeah.

Chris: His tooth exploded or something.

John: Yeah, and he still showed up for work, by the way. 

Chris: He did.

John: With a face that looked like somebody had worked him over with a bat.

Dean: Now originally you had a much more complicated gag to stall, and then you came up with this gag, and we were on the floor laughing.

Chris: Yeah, this is funny.

John: You said, you were like, ‘I can't shoot that gag, all I have is the elevator’ I was like ‘Alright, well we’ll do this.’ And it's funny cause it was really a throwaway, and then the more we talked about it, the funnier it got.

Dean: Yeah.

John: As you realize it's just comedy beat, after comedy beat, after comedy beat. Also: Mark Sheppard.

Dean: Yeah.

Chris: Mark Sheppard does the- he takes you through the- 

John: The fives stages of death and dying.

Chris: The array of reactions.

Dean: This is-

Chris: Puts on a [unintelligible].

John: And by the way- same elevator, we’re just changing the floor number on every shot.

Dean: And the plants.

John: And the plants.

[Laughter]

John: So yes. And we- but we did run Tim up the stairs a lot that day.

Chris: We did.

Dean: I'll tell you this may be my- the funniest gag we've ever done.

John: Just cause both actors- oh this- just the seething.

Dean: The rage.

John: And both actors kind of really digging in on it.

[Laughter]

Chris: Oh.

John: And then... 

Chris: Just kidding this right on his reel, this is all the different, kind of, reaction to it.

John: And I like, he's almost too tired to keep doing it. And up.

Dean: But what sells the whole gag for me is this last one. Because at this point now they've done everything they can, and they just don't care anymore.

[Laughter]

John: They're just. 

Dean: They're done.

John: They’re done, they’re just exhausted. And now- now Nate can give up. Yeah, he's bought them enough time to do what they need to do. And also this was a nice beat, cause Mark made a point of it, it's like if he just had one more second he would've figured it out.

Chris: Yeah.

Dean: Right.

John: You know you can never- Sterling- you always have to play fair with him. 

Dean: Right.

John: You know he's always this close to figuring it out. These guys were great as the vaguely resentful FBI agents. 

Dean: Exactly.

John: Because he's very insulting. And a timing joke. Mark carries a lot in this episode.

Chris: Door- door closed, there you go, door closes, door opens.

Dean: Mark had his work cut out for him this episode.

John: Door opens. ‘Hey, Bob.’ Yeah, these two had a lot of fun. There’s about 900 different takes of this. And oh this was tricky, because when we got up there, we were shooting on the top floor, but that meant we couldn't double the corridor.

Dean: That’s right.

John: Because we had the skylights.

Chris: Oh, hm.

Dean: So we had to find other corridors. 

John: Yeah, and sometimes people were sleeping, sorry about that.

Dean: This is a very simple bullet time shot, but a very effective one, I think.

John: Yeah, the big reveal.

Dean: Just the, ‘viola.’

John: And you're out.

Chris: How did they do that?

John: A lot of fun. And a wink, which would distract any normal human. And this is- I'm trying to remember where we came up with this bit. Oh the carts were brutal, trying to find the cart we could put a dude in.

Chris: Oh yeah.

Dean: But this bit here is a call back to the episode with the kids-

John: Yes. Yeah That's right- where Hardison and- 

Dean: Cannot rappel.

Chris: That’s just great.

John: Rappelling just does not fit well, he's just not left as- and by the way, it really- real risk of Aldis Hodge strangling there. Sorry about that, Aldis. 

[Laughter]

John: And he's figured it out. Yeah and that was a lot of fun. Nashua, New Hampshire, near where my sister lives, by the way.

Chris: Right that's where they're sending it.

John: That's actually where they are sending it- they're sending that trunk to my sister’s front lawn. What little I can do. And this is- what's fun is that we- the camera work is very energized, the game's afoot, and the second half- it’s interesting, the two previous seasons, the two episodes both had their own internal structure. This really just plays as a movie because all the set up is the first half.

Chris: Yes.

John: This entire episode is the rock that's been pushed down the hill, and we’re just chasing it.

Chris: And everything is paying off.

John: Yeah. And again, drawn from my experience in standup years, all the hotel rooms look alike. If you were to wake me up in any random hotel room, I woke up and my trash was there, I'd assume that that was my room.

Chris: Sure. I mean as any business traveller can tell you, they'll wake up and not know what city they're in.

John: And Richard Kind, by the way- poor Richard Kind spent a week in that bathrobe. 

Dean: Yeah.

John: On docks, on oil tankers, in hotel rooms.

Chris: Yeah, it’s true.

John: That was- he formed a very unhealthy relationship with that bathrobe.

Dean: And had to be in the bathrobe the whole time.

John: Yeah. This is my favorite bit- they're just the type of people who cut up people in tubs, that's their job.

Chris: Yeah.

Dean: But this little look of Eliot's right there tells you everything.

Chris: ‘Alright, I'm gonna cut her up.’

John: ‘Alright, this is my day.’ Aldis’s character Mr. Joshua, of course, named after the Gary Busey character from- 

Chris: Lethal Weapon.

John: Lethal Weapon. If we need a killer's name, why not-?

Dean: Go to the best.

John: Why not reference the best? Bunch of different versions of this. And I love them playing good cop, bad cop. But it was interesting, we had a version of this speech- and I will give this up to you as director, that explained everything. And you really looked at it and said, ‘Alright, here's the actual three things we need for this to make sense.’ Cause as the writer you never know, but you come at it from a storyteller like, ‘Here are the points the audience needs to be emotionally engaged to move forward.’

Dean: And it was a tough call, because Richard did such an amazing job with this speech. 

John: Yes.

Dean: You almost didn't want to lose anything. But, you know, we have time that we have to come in at the end of the show, and we needed to lose some time, so we really boiled it down.

Chris: Oh was this something that came out in editing? Or in-?

John: Yeah.

Chris: Oh it did, I didn't even notice.

John: You didn't notice, exactly. 

Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

John: The speech was about twice as long. Because really there's a whole mini scene between Richard and Tim there. 

Dean: Right.

John: And it really was- you know, you got it, he's bargaining for his life. That’s all you need to know.

Dean: And Richard is so knocking it out, you're actually learning a lot more with even less.

John: Yeah. His relationship through his attitude. No, there are times- even a writer would admit-

Dean: And that's all real sweat, by the way, no sweat bottle came in there; he earned each drop.

John: Boom. I like Aldis’ vague resentment at not being allowed to punch the guy.

Chris: Yeah.

John: Because again, everyone has their niche. And also the great expression Beth chooses there. ‘Eh, I've been in the tub waiting while you beat up a mayor. I'm out now.’

[Laughter]

John: ‘What are we doing next?’

Chris: Yeah, completely blank affect.

John: Yeah, exactly.

Dean: Day at the office.

John: Yeah.

Dean: But the subtle look of feeling like she's on a sinking ship. 

John: Yeah.

Dean: That we get out of Tara at the end of this scene, is really very great for setting up the turn.

John: And even- It's interesting, to watch Chris choose- Aldis is having basically Hardison question dad, while Eliot is instead watching the interplay between the two of them to see how Nate treats Hardison. 

Dean: Right.

John: Knowing that's the better indicator of what the relationship is. He does a similar thing in 207, actually, between he and Sophie- between Gina, with the bomb scene. 

Dean: Right, right. 

John: Yeah.

Dean: And then here we drop our red herring. Has Tara jumped the shark?

John: For a minute or half we considered doing it. For a minute and a half, what would- the problem was, it's Jeri Ryan, and you like her and you're hanging out with her and working with her and it was like, ‘Nah, I don't want the- I like the character.’

Chris: Well it sets up the- the act where it all pays off is one of my favorite acts we’ve done.

John: It’s one of my favorite bits ever. This, by the way, it seems like it's just an act break, it's horrible. Sterling has used his- the fact he used to be best friends with Nate Ford, to know that he is going to use his child’s- dead child's art to trap him.

Chris: Yeah.

John: This is a moment that was kind of thrown away, and the two actors, I saw them actually talking about it on set and they really dug in on it.

Chris: Yeah.

John: It's like, that is a horrible moment. You know, because he knows he won't leave town without that, and Sterling is the only man on earth who knows he won't leave town without that. 

Chris: Right.

John: Yeah. And it's one of the few times we’re behind the desk there.

Dean: Yeah.

John: Yeah. It's a weird place to shoot; it's just got that picture behind it, it's just trough to frame

Dean: But we wanted to get there and we found a place. Now this scene is unusual in that we've gone now to our handheld, which we do when our characters are either in physical or emotional jeopardy. But unlike other scenes, we went musicless here.

John: Yes.

Dean: Because the performances were so strong and so right on-

Chris: Oh that’s great.

Dean: -we didn't want to tell the audience what to feel. Just- we just wanted them to feel it.

John: Also in the tradition, that's the same glass.

Dean: Yeah.

John: Nate and- 

Chris: Oh that's the same glass from- from Nate in-

Dean: Season 1.

Chris: Season 1. That’s great.

John: Nate and Sterling have one glass they pass back and forth between each other depending on who’s winning.

Chris: That's great.

Dean: Right.

John: And the fact he's brought it to give it to him is sort of a signature of the deal they're falling into. And again, by the way, the idea that you would protect a witness that might’ve killed a cop. When you do the research? Oh man. This was kind of the Whitey Bulger thing in costic.

Chris: Well I mean, you know, we- it gave us a chance to explore- it was a whole different episode from the point of view of the FBI. 

John: Yeah.

Chris: About the compromises that people make when they get confidential, you know- 

John: Informants.

Chris: Cooperating witnesses, of looking the other way of other things they're doing. All they are focused on is their case.

John: That mayor is giving them 20 good busts.

Chris: Yeah, yeah.

John: They're not going to follow rumors. Also Mark Sheppard is a- man, this is a great scene. There's two versions of this scene. This is the one we used, the one I like. One where he's angry and superior, and one where he's genuinely hurt that Nate Ford had become this man. 

Dean: Yeah.

John: That he's genuinely hurt he has to offer him this deal. And this is the take we used. 

Chris: Yeah.

John: Which was an oddly vulnerable moment for that character. He doesn't want to be here, he doesn't want to be giving him this offer. Wow, this is all close up, too, which we almost never do.

Dean: Yeah. But this is- there's a lot of things that we did in this two part season finale that we don't normally do, that were out of the box, but necessary, it was very interesting.

John: Yeah, and this is him telling him this is his last chance. No, and- I always wonder- I gotta- I need to ask Tim when does- cause I know Tim in his head knows when Nate makes the decision what he's gonna do. Is it here or is it after the phone call? Is it after the phone call?

Dean: I think it's after the phone call.

John: Yeah. But there's alot going on.

Dean: But the twist here was cause Nate always is two steps ahead. Until he said, ‘And my team,’ and the guy- and he says, ‘No, just you.’ And there's a look on his face and it's one- it’s again, a rare vulnerable moment for Nate where he didn’t see that one coming. 

John: Yeah. And loses his hand and it's like, you know.

Dean: Again, getting to shoot at the actual docks was fantastic.

John: Except we can't shoot past her right shoulder, cause there was a navy ship there that we started to shoot, and the nice gentlemen came over and told us not to put that on camera, please.

Dean: That’s right.

Chris: Oh really?

John: Yeah.

Chris: Wow.

John: Yeah.

Dean: And briny despair may be my favorite Parker line.

John: Briny despair, old clowns.

Chris: Old clown shoes.

John: Briny despair. And again, there's a mini arc here, and the actresses are very good friends, and they're really found it, of their developing physical friendship and, like, just the fact that she can be- Parker’s physical character, and so the fact she’ll walk in pace with Tara is a big deal.

Dean: And now we've brought back Sophie.

John: There you go.

Dean: First time we haven't seen her on a monitor this season.

John: Exactly.

Chris: And here's the payoff from the scene in-

Dean: 207.

Chris: Well part one also, this-

Dean: But we set up really at the- 

Chris: We did, you're right.

Dean: At the- The Two Live Crew Job that she was going off to find herself. 

John: Yeah.

Chris: Right.

Dean: And then in the next episode, when he tried to bring her back, she says, ‘Do you want me back for the team, or for you?’ 

Chris: Right, right.

Dean: And now he calls that back and says, ‘Not for the team, for me.’

Chris: Right, right.

Dean: ‘I need you back.’

John: It was also subtle, but we've shown her in conveyance in a lot of the other shots when she's away, so you won't be tipped off by the fact that she's in a conveyance. That she's in transport.

Chris: That she's in a helicopter.

John: She's in transit, she’s in a helicopter. We've shown her in cars, she’s done the cell phone in different locations. 

Chris: Yeah, yeah, that’s true.

John: So hopefully you were not like ‘Oh, why are we seeing her in a different context?’ 

Chris: Right.

John: We've seen her in this context before. Now this was- man, this was a great day, this was just- we cleared the set and Tim just parked his ass on the floor. 

Dean: We did three takes, but this is actually his first take. He so nailed it on the first take.

John: Oh, really?

Dean: That the others were really just for safety. But he just came in there, ready to do this part.

John: Yeah. And this is- you know.

Dean: And then the tragedy that she didn't hear any of it. 

John: Yeah.

Chris: It's one of the great things about cell phones. Is that- from a dramatic standpoint- I mean they help you bring characters together, but you can also use them to- 

Dean: Separate them.

Chris: To separate them.

John: Never in 1940s comedy is or 1940s movie is like, ‘Pennsylvania 927: Oh the killer is-!’ ‘Oh I lost him.’

Chris: ‘The line went dead!’

John: ‘The line went dead!’ ‘No sir, the line’s not dead, I'll reconnect you right away.’ Thank you operator.’

Dean: But his feeling of betrayal at losing the connection.

John: Yeah.

Dean: Really again, is a wonderful red herring where we feel like, ‘Oh my god, he's really gonna sell this team out.’

John: Yeah.

Chris: Yeah.

John: Or at the very least you have no idea what the hell he's gonna do. 

Dean: Yeah.

John: You know, he is drunk, he is pissed off. No he-

Chris: And he's been put- he's been backed in a corner.

John: And you know, which-

Dean: But even the way he said here, ‘I have a plan that will fix everyone.’ It’s like, woah.

John: And having the picture that Sam drew. It's interesting that it's essentially a codependent relationship, but it's a functioning one that they have.

Dean: And here, again, is a strange bit of blocking that we had never done before, where Nate has isolated himself on the stairway. 

John: Yes.

Chris: Well that helps sell everything, too, doesn't it? Separated from them.

John: Well he's not in front of them, he's behind them. He's separated from them, exactly. Fun bit of blocking, too, actually. It's- we’ll use it again, I'm sure.

Dean: Yeah.

John: Cause that's a nice angle. And yes and then everyone- and then her coming around to pull focus. No, it's for a static shot, it's really interesting. But this is one of the few times we don't tell you the plan.

Dean: Right.

John: You know, it's one of the few times we transition. Usually we-

Chris: We did that in part two of season one, also.

John: Yeah, yeah. It’s- we’re usually an open mystery. 

Chris: Yes.

John: At least- and this was one of the few times that you're not- you have no idea- because the rules for the show usually are, you know what's gonna happen and the fun is seeing it go wrong and how they're gonna recover. This one it's like, you’re just gonna have to trust us.

Chris: Who invented the ‘And this is what we're gonna do’ was that Aristophones? The first one.

John: That was Aristophanes.

Chris: ‘Alright everyone, gather around. Grab your togas; let’s go.’

Dean: Now once again we've got the teams separated in different locations, each with different objectives.

Chris: Yeah.

Dean: And that's a little bit of a callback to the pilot episode, when she did the burn gag.

Chris: That's true.

John: Yes, the burn scam. Yeah, wow was this a tough shot.

Dean: That's a little bit of scale, huh guys?

Chris: Wow. 

Dean: How about that?

Chris: They let us- now was that digital or do we- let us paint on the ship?

Dean: We digitally put the name on the ship.

Chris: We did, ok.

John: Well, we did paint some of it .

Dean: We did paint some of it. You’ll see a sign later that we actually painted.

John: That was a lot of fun, just trying to figure out like, the whole break into the FBI office. And what's the easiest way? 

Dean: Short fight, but one of my favorites. 

John: Yeah, just brutal. This is a tough- this was a tough day. Chris did all of these fights in one day, straight through, and ran back and forth between the dialogue scenes.

Dean: This really should've been two days of shooting, that we did in one day.

John: He did like a 20 hour day here.

Dean: This was an insane day.

Chris: Oof.

Dean: But we only had use of this ship for two days, so we had to get it all in.

John: Yeah. He's got the samurai ponytail rocking there, that's how you can tell there's gonna be some fighting. And we have money, and we would like to arrange a meeting. ‘I'm a man with a briefcase full of money, I would like to meet your boss.’ It’s a great, classic trope.

Chris: I like this act, this is my favorite act.

John: I also like- I gave them this running bit where he's counting guys with guns.

Chris: Yeah, I remember that from- you came up with that last season.

John: Season one, and we never found a place for it.

Chris: That's a great shot, too.

John: Yeah, that's a great shot. That and- actually on the boat, that's the way you get between decks. This is actually one of my favorite Parker bits, just talking- coming up with the speech about what it's like to die in an air vent. Because the fact that she's always in air vents, is worth addressing, you know.

Dean: And it shows you the way her mind thinks.

John: Yes, exactly. ‘Scratching on the metal.’ She's kinda turned on, I'm not sure where this is going. 

[Laughter]

Dean: Yeah, that’s fair.

Chris: It's the tongue, the darting tongue and she shakes out of it.

John: Let’s go and we’re off.

Dean: She loves the danger.

Chris: We didn't get wet that down folks, that was actual Portland rain.

John: Yes, Beth Riesgraf and Jeri Ryan were on a rooftop, on a skyscraper, with a thunderstorm during most of this day.

Dean: Not dangerous at all.

John: Not dangerous, ignore the lighting, kids. Man, what were we thinking?

Dean: And he pulled out the Scottish accent out of nowhere, which was fantastic.

John: I know, I know. Which was a lot of fun. Because the idea is the mayor has gotten in over his head, and he's dealing with the same sort of businesses that- power drill was the nastiest thing I could think of.

Chris: And that's quite a nasty bit on it, too.

John: Yes, exactly. Well that’s- you know, I mean, if you're gonna mess up somebody's knees, that's the bit you're gonna use yeah. ‘Still counting.’ Oh yeah, then we just reset- it was really tricky because it was so complicated, we had to reset their goal at the beginning of every act. 

Dean: Right.

John: What do they need to get? Yeah. And again, it's like, do these guys really meet in broad daylight to look at their goods? Yes! Yes they do!

Chris: Yeah.

John: And usually-

Dean: And here's where we set up the phone does voice dialing, which is crucial to our final act.

John: Thank you 21st century. Because we enjoyed tying up Richard Kind and we’ll leave it at that.

Chris: Yeah, I'm sure the fact that GPS is in every phone is gonna be our best friend and possibly our worst enemy this coming season. 

John: No, it's a big deal. 

Chris: Yeah.

John: A phone that's on is a phone that can be tracked.

Chris: Yup.

John: Exactly. And yes and Richard, by the way, finding the desperation. ‘They cut her up in a bathtub!’ 

John: Like the murder wasnt the worst thing in the world, but the fact that somehow it was so undignified? Yeah. Nice scream. And that was, by the way, great little comedy beat, just like, ‘Well to be fair, he did most of the cutting.’ 

Chris: Yeah.

John: The two of them- we don't usually have Eliot and Nate doing comedy together, but when they do it's a pure relationship, it's a nice rhythm.

Dean: And if you look closely, there in the distance, we've set up Sophie is actually with the buyers.

John: Yes.

Dean: But you wouldn't notice that unless you watched it again.

Chris: Oh, that's great.

John: And now they've broken in, they've come down through the air vent, she did not enjoy the experience in any way shape or form. Oh man, this was a tough day. That's like-

Chris: Hot? Cold? What was the temperature? Do you remember?

John: Brutal, brutal hot. Cold at night. Hot at- you know what? There's never-

Dean: Back and forth.

John: It's never comfy on an oil tanker deck.

Chris: No- I’m trying- yeah I'm trying to imagine-

Dean: And there again, there’s Sophie in the distance.

Chris: There she is, that's great.

John: Sophie in the distance. And this is a real fusebox we tacked into. Sorry.

Dean: In city hall?

John: In city hall. 

[Laughter]

John: This was actually a fun thing is, this year we shifted to Hardison not using a signature laptop, but using the minis. 

Chris: Yeah.

John: Because our hacker consultant, Kevin Mitteny told us that's what they're using. They're using $300 computers and throwing them away if they're gonna get busted. And running stuff off the thumb drives.

Dean: And this was the- in the actual cargo hold of the oil tanker, so this was very confined space to shoot in. It looked great, but it was very difficult to light and move the camera around and because the top of the stairs- that was the only stairs that was the only way in and out of that room. So all the lights, all the cameras all had to go up and down stairs- there was no other way in or out.

John: And remind you, Gina’s in this scene later. Gina at, like, 17 months pregnant.

[Laughter]

John: Came down those stairs like a fricken trooper, man. We were just- we were more scared than she was. She was like going down them, and we were like, ‘Ahhh, oh god.’

Chris: Just kind of like [unintelligible] step.

John: It’s an oil tanker! And she’s in like fashion boots, and a kicky top, you know.

Chris: Wow.

John: This was- you know what’s weird? This speech doesn’t advance the plot in any way, shape, or form. This speech is just him selling his character to buy time, and yet it’s really interesting. 

Dean: Yeah this-

John: Tim’s digging in on the character here. It's his evil speech of evil, you know.

Dean: Right

John: And he never gets to give one.

Chris: Yeah, it's interesting when we can do that. We've done that a few times, the- 

John: Glengarry, Glen death.

Chris: Sophie also- also as the Indian pharmaceutical rep gave an evil speech of evil.

John: Yes.

Dean: And this you wrote in the script as the Bourne fade. 

John: Yes.

Dean: Which I thought was the perfect description.

John: It's a perfect- it’s a good shorthand. He's there, and then he’s not there.

Chris: It's great.

John: By the way, Chris has just stepped three feet to the right into a tool locker.

[Laughter]

Dean: Right.

John: There's no actual exit there. And- was there a reason for the 360? Just to keep it- just to be interesting? Because I don't think it was-

Chris: And how hard was that within that space?

Dean: Really hard. But we felt that it was a great way to, again, the world has changed. We thought one thing was going on here, but now we've spun it by-

Chris: And that's steadicam.

Dean: That's all steadicam. Gary Camp.

John: It's weird, because it's also, kind of, Nate Ford buying into his persona there. That's one of the times you really see him.

Dean: And Jackie ‘The Joke Man’ Martling.

John: Who came in and did a great job for us!

Dean: You know what's funny, is that I thought he was just gonna be a comic that you had to teach how to act. But you know what? He really came in with the character, he committed to it, he wasn't just trying to be jokey. I mean, he really knocked it out.

John: He totally gives us serious takes-

Chris: He’s totally convincing as the evidence locker guy.

John: Slightly more convincing than Jeri Ryan in insanely hot pants as the FBI agent. 

[Laughter]

John: I gotta with Jackie here on the verisimilitude scale. Although we did put Jackie in those pants, that didn't work out for us as much. But no, he's great and the kind of vaguely resentful- you can totally see him doing this character on a- 

Dean: And yet he gave us a great exit line here.

John: ‘Oh no, who wants to talk to the evidence guy?’ 

[Laughter]

John: And that was, by the way, that was him, that was not in the script.

Chris: That’s true.

Dean: And not overselling it either.

John: No, no, it was really nice. You could see him playing that role on a cop show.

Dean: Totally.

John: Absolutely. Nate Ford, international man of mystery and arms dealer.

Chris: Peacoat really working well on the boat.

[Laughter]

John: Yeah, nice. It's very much-

Chris: That was a coat waiting for a set.

John: Yeah. Well it's interesting cause- 

Dean: Oh and there's Sophie in the background.

Chris: There’s Sophie!

John: And some people in the first screening kind of caught her, but- 

Chris: Now she's there buying guns? Who’s-?

[Laughter]

John: Well she's- she is buying guns, you know. 

Chris: For her library?

[Laughter]

Dean: Library needs guns, too.

John: Libraries need guns, too. I like to think- I like to think that she is a Swiss buyer.

Chris: No, I mean, it’s a well armed library.

John: She's a Swiss buyer, she’s-

Dean: And here's a nice little turn.

John: Nice swing around. Shot that day on the boat to reveal that they talked. And then over again. Wow, and we all shot this in a real container.

Dean: In a real containter.

Chris: It was for real? Oh, wow.

Dean: Yeah. Now back on the roof, and this is my favorite Parker bit we've ever done. 

Chris: Yeah.

John: Yeah it's tough. There's a lot of good ones, but. 

Dean: But.

John: But we never expected Beth to do this.

Chris: This turn here is great.

Dean: This is the first time since the pilot that we brought back how lethal she can actually be.

John: There's a bit in Stork Job, but boom. Oh yeah and she locked in on Jeris throat on that, too. 

Chris: Yeah.

John: And Jeri goes over the edge. 

Chris: Over the edge. 

John: She's wired, but that's Jeri Ryan hanging over the edge. And it was-

Chris: And again, it was raining and windy. 

John: Raining. Yeah no, they were both fearless up there. 

John: They had a good time up there. They really wound up working well together. And now it's all gone to hell.

Dean: But it's a real callback to that pilot line of, ‘Going to my angry place.’

John: Yeah. This is just- because what's happened is- and just for writing thing, Parker has let her into the family. The only people who are human beings are members of the family. Once Jeri’s betrayed them, she’s moved outside the family, and is an object.

Chris: Well, also to betray the family is-

John: Real ship captain.

Dean: Real ship-

Chris: Oh wow, that's great.

John: You were saying? To betray...

Chris: To betray the family is even worse.

Dean: This is a great hit right here.

Chris: Oh!

Dean: Bam! Man.

John: Yeah- man shooting- that's as wide as that space is, guys. 

Dean: Yeah.

John: That was brutal to be down there.

Dean: And these are two guys from the beginning of the previous episode. So again, if you haven't watched them back to back, you might not realize these are the two guys who shot Bonanno.

Chris: Yeah.

John: Yeah, so you know we've linked up, physically, the bad guys.

Dean: Now that one actually- we put that one actually up there.

John: Yeah, that's a real sign. And this is my favorite, this is one of my favorite character reveals ever, and it's because she's doing one of my favorite characters ever. Gina’s doing Annie Croy here.

Chris: Annie Croy.

Dean: Which, again, ties back to the beginning of the season.

John: Yeah it's almost like we think this through. Yeah and- I'm sorry we're all gonna be quiet here because we all love this.

Dean: ‘Bye now.’

John: ‘Bye now.’

[Laughter]

John: That's fucked up, man. I'm sorry, I'm gonna swear on DVD and say that is fucked up.

Dean: That ‘bye now’ is. 

Chris: The ‘bye now’ throwaway.

Dean: Oh boy, ruthless. And then my second favorite reveal of a character all year.

Chris: Oh.

John: Yeah. No, that's fantastic. And the way Tim sells this like, ‘What the hell is going on?’ No, even writing that character reveal I wasn't sure it would work, and even when we shot it I'm like, ‘Yeah, this works.’ Gina- you've been so waiting to be- hear her voice.

Dean: She is so talented.

John: We've also really lined it up like there’s no out here. We- usually the audience- a smart audience member will see a backdoor we put. There is no backdoor, she's the backdoor. 

Chris: Yeah this was a tricky bit of scripting too, right? I mean we had a ship, and we needed to disable it. I mean, what was- right?

John: It was a lot of wandering around on the ship going, ‘Alright, how does this work exactly?’

Chris: Yeah.

Dean: And even though Tim is out of focus here, you get everything right there.

John: ‘The hell’s going on?’ And she doesn't break character, no.

Dean: Cause she is the ultimate grifter.

John: Yeah, no she does a great- and OK, shoot this guy in the face when I'm off the-’ She's impatient and that's actually kind of a nice thing. And now this.

Dean: Terrific little fight scene shot by Marc Roskin.

John: Yes, at some ungodly hour of the morning. And this is where we pay off the numbers. We've been waiting two years to do this.

Dean: And again, in the actual ship.

John: Yeah, there's a lot of stuff to hurt yourself on. 

Dean: And this gun going off was not easy.

John: Yeah.

Chris: Oof. 

John: Yeah, we're spilling brass all over the inside of the ship. The- this is a brutal fight sequence, all these stunties did- you know, they're banging off metal all over the place.

Dean: In this kind of space, it is so hard to do this safely, these guys were champs. And Christian- I’m telling you, he's amazing in these things.

John: No double.

Chris: Yeah.

Dean: Refuses to get a double.

John: Refused to get a double. There you go, and down, he counts. By the way, we’re not exhibiting superhuman strength here. This is how you break flexicuffs.

Chris: Oh wow, that's a little hulk moment.

John: Yeah, the only thing keeping- if you- if- that's why they flexicuff you behind your back. The only thing keeping you in flexicuffs in front of you is the belief that you should be in flexicuffs. Little survival tip.

Chris: Oh wow.

John: And this is also a favorite bit, because it was really written as a kind of expositional, but Beth found this really weird rhythm near the end of it.

Dean: Oh boy.

John: This is shot with the XD right?

Dean: Yeah.

John: This is all shot with a Prosumer-level camera. 

Dean: She just finds this little bit of evil.

John: ‘Oh, I actually thought you were going to throw me off.’ Yeah, exactly.

Dean: Just this little fake laugh here, just so great. I think it's actually in the two shot, because it has to be in the comedy frame.

John: Yeah the- also the- it's interesting that the- the idea that it's fair enough that they would indeed-

Dean: Here it is.

John: Here it is, coming up. ‘I thought you were actually going to throw me off the roof’. And there she is. The look before hand, the ‘Oh, that's right, this is how humans are supposed to react.’

[Laughter]

John: ‘Eh, I was totally going to throw you off that roof.’ 

Chris: Yeah, that’s great.

John: But the whole understanding that yes we probably- that's actually a favorite line and Jeri really nailed it, which is ‘You would have forgiven him.’ They're all enablers, they're all in this weird broken family, and you know, it's both their strength and their weakness. Also, again, by the way, director thing, I had a whole explanation of how Hardison disarmed the ship, and we had no time to shoot it and you were like, ‘Giant wrench!’

Chris: Giant wrench!

John: You know what he's done.

Chris: When you see a giant wrench, you see that he messed something up.

John: He is a monkey wrencher. You know! It's a term.

Dean: In the comedy frame. so-

John: And by the way, ‘Took you long enough,’ is a recurring theme for the entire back half of the season.

Dean: Right there.

Chris: Oh that's right.

Dean: And she walks by. ‘Huh?’

[Laughter]

Dean: Love it.

John: And then a beautiful over the shoulder. Oh that's a hero shot right there. No, it really is- it’s interesting because it was very scary, because you know, you didn't know how long Gina would be with us going into the season and everything.

Chris: Oh, this is great.

John: And the entire act depends on Sophie being the best grifter on earth.

Chris: Even him-

Dean: And it's just fun to see them all back together again, because we've been starved from it.

Chris: Him being like places where he doesn't know he was all throughout this episode.

John: Yeah, it's a nice running gag actually. And zero. And by the way, it was Chris who caught the count. Chris came up to me and was like, ‘If that's the last guy I'm gonna-’ I was like, ‘Oh, good catch at 2am, nicely done.’ ‘Took you long enough,’ again.

Dean: And this sets up the handcuff bit at the end.

John: Yeah, that was tricky.

Chris: Right he has the handcuffs.

John: Oh god, yeah. Boy this was really easy to keep track of.

[Laughter]

Dean: And both of them really delivered- you know, this is a very short scene that needs a lot of emotions. Because it wraps up really where they are and where they're going next season, and they just did it with looks and with subtext. And it was just terrific.

John: You poor bastard. And also, by the way, what I love about this is, this is the happy ending to most television shows, this moment right here. We then fuck it up.

Dean: Right, exactly.

John: Yeah. They really care for each other, they are really good friends.

Dean: And they're there for each other.

John: And they're there for each other, and he's a broken bastard. And what's great is he walks out of there without really knowing what the rest of the plan is.

Dean: My favorite Richard Kind line right here, ‘I don't know.’

John: ‘I don't know.’

[Laughter]

Chris: That's very Richard Kind. That’s Mad About You, Spin City Richard Kind right there.

John: Yeah, it really is. And by the way, yeah, only two ways out of this. That seems like a design flaw to me. Because that front window is a 40 foot drop onto the deck of the ship; you can't get out through that front window. 

Chris: Oh wow.

John: Yeah if you lock these doors, they ain’t going anywhere. Yeah, and a nice run and gun there, and there's also a little mini scene we blew off there with Paul sort of turning on Richard. Hero moment, hero- the team together.

Dean: By the way, those are some digital effects to remove the pregnant belly.

John: Nice, nicely done.

Chris: Oh really, wow.

Dean: Yes.

Chris: I say it a lot.

John: And nice hug.

Dean: And also just on a small note, we couldn't afford two helicopters. Because we had a helicopter in the scene, and we also needed a helicopter that could shoot the scene. So we used the same helicopter for both and then just digitally erased the camera that was mounted on the end of the helicopter.

Chris: Wait wait, so in other words when you're up there with them you're also shooting- the cameras below it?

Dean: So in other words- yeah, so when you see the helicopter arrive later, there was actually a camera attached to it.

John: A giant camera rig on it, like the size of a VW bug on the bottom of it.

Dean: But we erased it.

Chris: Oh that's amazing.

John: Yeah. Yeah and Sophie’s thought of everything. There's a way out, you hear sirens, it's all coming together. 

Dean: And it's fun to see them back together again.

Chris: And again, not that we do this typically. But this was, in a sense, this scene was kind of conceived of first, this scene and him on the deck. 

Dean: Right.

John: That's right.

Chris: That we were leading up to.

John: The original version of the script is, it opens with him bleeding out on the deck and you have no idea where he is.

Chris: But I'm saying even in the beginning of the season.

John: Oh yeah.

Chris: This scene was kind of where the show was going. How we were gonna get there was the question.

John: You don’t- everyone has their different ways. Before we shot a frame of season two, I knew it ended with Nate Ford saying, ‘I'm a thief.’

Chris: Right. But even- but even on a- also on the deck of a ship remember- I remember that.

John: Yeah, on the deck of a ship.

Dean: Now I think this ending is one of the bigger endings we’ve ever done, and it's really the most emotional ending I've ever done.

John: Really? I dunno you and I-

Dean: More than I was expecting it to be.

John: You and I disagree, because we all have our favorite stuff, but yeah, it-

Chris: It’s certainly a huge hero moment.

John: It's a huge hero moment, and they're all making great choices. Eliot really wants to just tear through these guys, and Nate’s not gonna let him.

Dean: Yeah.

John: Yeah. 

Dean: He's being a good dad for once.

John: Yeah. He’s- and by the way, again, this is not the right choice, he shouldn't have lied to them, he shouldn't have had a plan he didn't tell them, he shouldn’t- he's a control freak. Even in his moment of sacrifice, he's a selfish, alcoholic bastard.

[Laughter]

Dean: That's right.

John: I just wished to make sure nobody makes sure nobody thinks he's being super heroic here. He doesn't really change that much. 

Chris: That’s true.

John: No, and this was fun, we had all different kinds of versions of lockers and found out that yeah, that's how they keep a lot of evidence.

Dean: That’s crazy.

John: That was fun though too, also, you only had two rows of those evidence lockers, so you staggred them to shoot through them to make it look-

Dean: To make it seem like they went on forever.

Chris: Yeah where was that? Where-?

John: That was on set that was- remember the small soundstage we had?

Chris: Oh, ok.

Dean: It was actually a reworking of the set at the end of 207 at the airport. 

John: Yes. It was the airport, but we just moved it over to the other stage. And I also love the idea again- Nate and Sterling are playing a game that just nobody else gets to be a part of. This is just- this is just nine moves ahead guys. 

Dean: Right.

John: There's another version of the show where Katie O'Grady chases Eliot, Parker, and Hardison for an entire season, yeah, but in this version. ‘I can feel you thinking’ he knows him, he knows him that well. He knows the counter move- no, they really dug in here. And by the way, it's 110 degrees on that deck, Tim’s in a peacoat handcuffed to a rail. He's working his ass off here. 

Dean: With the turtleneck.

John: With the turtleneck, yeah. Oh and just the sheer rage Katie O'Grady is radiating there. 

Chris: Now what time- what day- part of the shooting day was this? Did you make-?

John: This was morning.

Chris: This was, like, first thing?

Dean: Yeah, this was the first shot.

Chris: Is that a challenge to do the most emotional thing first?

Dean: It is, and especially because when we started shooting it we were in cloud cover and then halfway through the scene the sun came out. And so then trying to make that all work was really difficult. 

Dean: This, I thought, was surprisingly more emotional than I anticipated when we were there.

John: Well it was weird because when we were there, we couldn't quite get the staging, and they seemed like they were standing really far away. ‘Cause the deck was bigger than we thought.

Dean: Right.

John: And no- well this is the shot because by shooting this way, you get intimate, it feels like they're right on top of them. The other reverse kind of shows you the space.

Chris: I think it also parallels from season one, also-

John: Yeah it does, it does.

Chris: The scene where they’re standing around, really nicely.

Dean: But they're all disappointed in him, which is great. He sacrificing for them, but that's not what they want.

John: No. And he lied to them. And he's- you’re an idiot, I mean, that's really what Eliot’s thinking right there.

Chris: Yeah.

Dean: Yeah.

John: Like, ‘You know what? If you just talk to us.; I really never realized how [unintelligible] this episode is. 

Chris: It is.

John: It’s a big hero sacrifice, but it’s- you know he really broke the family. Again.

Chris: Yeah.

Dean: And Gina just nails this scene. I mean, we waited for this kiss for two seasons.

John: Yeah.

Dean: And it comes out, and she's crushed by it. It’s great.

John: Yeah. And again, and- you know this is a big hero moment in his head and she calls him on it. Because she- and this is what's interesting, Sophie Deveraux is a more advanced human being than Nate Ford is at this point. She went away, she took her space-

Chris: Right.

John: You know. 

Dean: And she lets him have it.

John: In the same way he let her have it at the end of season one, she's letting him have it at the end of season two. I love that look, by the way, that Eliot- Chris and Mark really set up the fact that they can't stand each other, really well.

Chris: And here, you know, the relationship between these two kicks in also. 

John: Yeah.

Chris: Between Nate and Sterling.

John: Yeah, the fact that he held it together- and they don't know, by the way. 

Chris: Right.

John: They have no idea when they're leaving.

Dean: That little look with Christian is just great.

John: And there's a camera mount on that helicopter.

Dean: That's been erased.

Chris: That's great.

John: ‘Who the hell is this guy?’ That- this is- you’re right, we wrote the ending first.

Chris: Yeah, I remember, this was-

Dean: He goes, ‘I don’t know.’

John: I remember this was the first thing ever.

Dean: This was the end of the arc. ‘I'm a thief.’

John: ‘And I'm a thief.’ I mean this is a callback to him saying I'm not a thief for two years. 

Dean: Right.

John: Wow. Thank god this is the last episode of the show.

Chris: And we’re not listening- and we can't hear it here in the commentary, but Joe Le Duca did- the orchestration for this is absolutely fantastic.

Dean: It's actually the first time he went and got a real orchestra. 

John: Yeah.

Dean: Went to Salt Lake City and recorded with a real orchestra, and I mean the scale of this is outstanding.

John: It's giant. 35- I think we had close to half a- 50 FBI agents here. And just cars, helicopters, and this is a big- this is a big hero moment, man. This is a film ending, you know.

Dean: Yeah, it really is.

John: This is it. I love his choice here, it's like, ‘And if I die, I'm totally cool with that.’

Chris: Oh here we go.

John: And he's bleeding out, can you see?

Dean: See the blood on the ground.

John: The blood- he's bleeding out. There's no guarantee Nate Ford will make it.

[Laughter]

Chris: Wow.

John: Which was fun actually shooting this, ‘cause Tim really loved this. And two days before we finished shooting, he turned to me and went, ‘Wait am I dead?’

[Laughter]

Chris: Oh that’s something.

Dean: Stay tuned for season three and you'll find out.

John: I know. No kidding, you'll find out.

Dean: Thank you again for hanging in there with us and listening to this commentary.

John: We had a great time and we really appreciate you guys watching the show.

Chris: And thanks again for watching season two; we can't wait to bring you season three.

John: And thank you, Portland.

Dean: Yes.

John: Big thank you, Portland.

[adamsvanrhijn]

2020 top fives

all listings are unranked (within the selection of five) & in chronological order unless otherwise specified.

films* watched in cinema:

knives out (2019)

just mercy (2019)

weathering with you (2019)

jojo rabbit (2019)

portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019)

* i watched a total of 11 films in movie theaters & 11 out, so i did watch more than the last year! (13 last year.)

tv shows* watched:

icarly (not for the first time)

avatar: the last airbender

like the first four episodes of leverage?

downton abbey (not for the first time)

* this is actually a list of the Only tv i watched this year 

new-to-me songs heard:

ma soeur, clara luciani

take me, aly & aj

want you in my room, carly rae jepsen

the 3 part song cycle vienna teng dropped at the end of her virtual concert

slow dancing, aly & aj (sneaking in at the very last minute!)

fics written and completed (alphabetical order by title):

good love

it takes my breath away (what you do so naturally) 

kindling

strange how I fit into you (there's a distance erased with the greatest of ease)

take my eyes to borrow

fics read (non-explicit, one per author, complete only, published in 2020 only, alphabetical order by title):

But when I am Grown Up, will somebody Love Me? by likehandlingroses

Frighten the Horses by DarthNickels [requires AO3 account]

meaner than my demons (bigger than these bones) by celeste9

take this waltz, it’s yours now by callmewirkmood

You’re Knee Deep in Clover by InfiniteCalm

in the past 12 months i have read a lot of really wonderful stories and it was hard to narrow it down. i am so grateful to everyone who has posted things & am sure i am not alone in having really benefited from having nice things to read / look forward to reading this year!

miscellaneous events/milestones:

made & strengthened many online friendships

took some dance classes in france

moved across the country

got my first apartment

started a new job

[acecademia]

What else are you into? (I can't tell if Tumblr sent this.)

Hi, nonny!

You can probably tell from my previous posts and literally my everything, but outside of academia, I really love young adult literature and also fanfiction 😂 I managed to somehow turn my interests directly into a career, so like, I'm winning at life lmao

I also really like video games, especially story-heavy games. My brother has an MFA in game design, and he's always sending me links to new video games and analog games to check out (analog games being like board games, card games, tabletop games, etc.). (I'm super lucky in that regard--I get the best birthday and Christmas gifts.) Other than that, I spend a lot of time binge-watching Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube amongst other streaming services/platforms. I'm also very into baking, creative writing (mainly YA fantasy and sci-fi), and crochet!

If we're specifically talking about fandoms or media that I'm into, there's an overview of some of my faves (that got super out of hand) below the cut (leaving out books because I covered that in a previous post, though I did forget to mention in that post that comics-wise, I also love DC Bombshells)

Movies:

Clue (1985) - my favorite movie of all time and is basically my sense of humor in one ~90-minute package. My friends hate watching it with me because I have seen it at least 50 times (not an exaggeration) and know every line by heart

Star Wars - lowkey fuck the sequel trilogy tho VII had some promise before they ruined it, also I wanted to marry Luke Skywalker as a kid so like take that as you will

The Old Guard - immortal gays who literally can't be killed? Sign me the fuck up

MCU - the early years mainly, but also like Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, and Black Panther were all *chef's kiss*. Also, #TeamIronMan

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - hell yeah finally getting some Miles Morales and Spider-Gwen content!

Birds of Prey - it's just such a fun time and so refreshing to see an action movie made by women. Also plz put Ivy in the next movie because I need my wlw crime content

Venom - it's a good time, y'all

Moana - one of my favorite undergrad memories is going with my friend to see this like two weeks early at a special advanced screening

Beauty and the Beast - look, I'm a librarian, of course I've wanted to be Belle and have that library since I was a small child

Love, Simon - I cry every time I watch the "you get to exhale now" scene and the scene with his dad apologizing and accepting him. It warms my little queer heart 😭😭😭

TV:

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Young Justice

9-1-1

Julie and the Phantoms

Leverage

Psych

Lucifer

Shadow and Bone

BBC Merlin

Supernatural - not like as a serious thing anymore, but I was in deep years ago

Teen Wolf - see: the comment about Supernatural, but also I stopped watching around season 4 and just read the fanfic because that whole show was a mess

Would I Lie to You?

Musicals:

Newsies

Bandstand

Fun Home

Bonnie & Clyde - fight me, it was good

A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder - I don't think I've ever laughed harder at a show than when I saw the tour

If/Then

Legally Blonde

A Chorus Line

Allegiance

Wicked - I'm a basic bitch, I know, but I've seen the tour twice for my birthday

Phantom of the Opera - specifically Phantom 25. I will accept no other cast unless they finally manage to make the French-language production happen and Sierra Boggess is able to reprise her role

Games:

Gone Home

Dragon Age

Tomb Raider

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - I love most of the series, but Majora's Mask is my all-time fave

Fallout

Assassin's Creed

Overwatch

The Sims 4

Music:

Fall Out Boy

Lindsey Stirling

Aly & AJ

Taylor Swift

Marie-Mai - love me some French pop

Olivia Rodrigo

Paramore

Meet Me @ the Altar

Panic! at the Disco

Web:

Carmilla

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

Jenny Nicholson

Jessica Kellgren-Fozard

Bernadette Banner

Karolina Żebrowska

Philip DeFranco

Jill Bearup

Kitboga

STRANGE ÆONS

Sarah Z

Lindsay Ellis

Rachel Maksy

Buzzfeed Unsolved - RIP 😭😭😭

Standup:

Dara O'Briain - the funniest man alive. I have literally laughed so hard at some of his jokes that I've legitimately had trouble breathing

John Mulaney

James Acaster

Sarah Millican

Steve Hofstetter

Iliza Shlesinger

Hasan Minhaj

Okay, that's way more information than literally anyone ever wanted to know about me, and also I'll probably remember like 3 million things I forgot to mention as soon as I post this 😂