Chapter Fourteen Page 10
Jan10
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Lawyer 2: Are you really sure you want —
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Cohen: I’ll be fine.
Lake: Stu.
Cohen: Jess.
Lake: You know, you could always just ask me out for coffee.
Cohen: You’re a strong, liberated modern woman. You could ask me out for coffee.
Lake: You don’t have to fight with me about everything.
Cohen: Sure I do. If I stopped, you’d get bored with me in ten minutes.
Lake: Don’t be silly. We agreed on half an hour.
My first thought: nice gams.
My second thought: there has to be less complicated way of arranging a date than whatever flagged the FCC’s attention back in the 80’s.
That hadn’t occurred to me but now I am enamored of the idea that he’d arrange flagrant violations of broadcast code just so he could see her.
I know, right?
Oh my god these total losers. I’m torn between :3 because flirting via flagrant broadcast violations, too cute!!! And ;_; because, you know, we know what happens and they really screw this one up pretty good.
And now we know who the mother is.
We knew that a long time ago.
How did we? Are you assuming we read EOH or something? Or am I missing something?
Now this one’s easy: Miranda’s mother first appeared back in BICP chapter 11. (She isn’t a character in The Eagle of Hermes at all.)
Also, her last name is Lake? Kind of a giveaway there.
And that, dear ladies and gentlemen and variations thereof, is how Miranda was made.
Called it!