The New Girl preplay
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seaoftroubles| Directly off the end of last episode! Jordan decides to murder Nathan since Audrey isn't Audrey. There's a fight and lots of running and shouting. Eventually Lexi fires into the air to get everyone to stop. Duke says he can maybe clear things up if he talks to Vince, and gets Vince to agree to not kill Nathan right away so they can make Lexi fall in love with him and kill him instead. So basically, DUKE STALLS LIKE WOAH |
| Vince decides the best way to get Lexi in love with Nathan is to have her tag along on a trouble investigation like Audrey did. They head out to a case where a kid flipped his lid and tried to kill his girlfriend on a date, only to end up locked in a freezer. Nathan, Lexi, and Duke go to face him down, and see him end up slitting his own throat. |
| Duke ends up leading the questioning of the kid's girlfriend, because Nathan is being all strong silent type. Signs point to a hospitalized kid named Tyler being involved, he's in the hospital because he was paralyzed in a big car accident both the victim and his girlfriend were also in. Lexi just wants food. Duke is all "Nathan, come on, I know you have no game BUT THIS IS THE WOMAN YOU LOVE. SORT OF." |
| Duke and Nathan question Tyler while Lexi goes to get a CT scan. Tyler says that he felt like he was out of control when Katie looked at him, like she's troubled. Nathan gives the kid his card, and then Duke gives him a little "prescription" for free drinks at the Gull. Meanwhile, Katie throws herself in front of a car. Fun! |
| Duke gets Jennifer to go home for awhile. If anyone goes with her, they may get to see Jordan hit on Wade. If not . . . that'll just happen off screen. I'm guessing Luce and Tavi will be stuck to Duke for most of this? |
| Lexi says maybe it's Tyler because Josh and Katie were clearly getting it on behind his back. They all go back to the hospital, but find a dead orderly instead of Tyler. Duke goes to find a nurse -- this is where he gets possessed, and possibly where we start to go our own way because he has actual loved ones around who worry about him in our version. |
| Tyler-in-Duke sidetracks Lexi and Nathan and locks them in a walk in cooler. He tries to dodge Luce and Tavi too. I'm guessing it doesn't work well. |
| Perhaps they take him back to the Gull? He manages to get a minute alone with Wade to get the idea to kill his own body so he can stay in Duke's. He manages to get away from Luce and Tavi somehow and heads for the hospital, possibly with a very confused Jennifer in tow. |
| Lexi (and probably immune Lucifer?) heads in to deal with Tyler and keep him from murdering anyone, only to at the last minute "chicken out" and let Tyler try to kill his own body. This sets off Duke's trouble, which override's Tyler's trouble, saving Duke from the possession. Hurray! |
| Duke manages to pull Lexi aside at the Gull to point out that Audrey totally would have known what would have happened, and she admits to only pretending to be Lexi. Show ends here. Pretty sure Duke will want to stick around to try to clear things up/get rid of Wade, and this is where Lucifer and Octavia DRAG HIM BODILY HOME IF NECESSARY. And then it's all over but the moody moody aftermath, mmmmmm |
Hospital, part one
Date: 2022-03-26 07:13 pm (UTC)Re: Hospital, part one
Date: 2022-03-29 09:02 pm (UTC)handwavilyinterviewing Katie, the girl Josh had been having lunch with, the trouble team du jour headed to the hospital to talk to Tyler, her boyfriend and Josh's best friend. Octavia waslovingly modded to behanging back and letting the others take point, mostly making sure that Duke didn't get into too much trouble (and maybe that no one tried to force anyone else into anything too lovey-dovey).They didn't. Mostly, Duke took the lead on the interviews, occasionally giving Nathan meaningful looks to be less of a depressed asshole and actually try talking to Lexie, even just, like, as a person if not as a prospective future love interest.
Tyler, unsurprisingly, was also depressed. He was in his early 20s and paralyzed thanks to an accident in which, he claimed, his girlfriend had given him suspicious looks. Nathan thanked the kid, and Duke offered him a quickly scrawled coupon for a free drink at the Gull when he got out of the hospital, and they stepped back into the hallway to discuss things -- and reconnect with Lexie, who'd gone to get her head examined.
"What did the doctor say?" Nathan asked her. Hey, he was speaking to her directly. Progress!
"Right as rain," Lexie said, shrugging. "Healthy. But I don't really trust doctors." She gave Duke and Octavia a meaningful look, expecting them to agree with her.
Re: Hospital, part one
Date: 2022-03-29 09:25 pm (UTC)It wasn't that she didn't trust doctors. She just didn't like hospitals very much.
Re: Hospital, part one
Date: 2022-03-29 09:32 pm (UTC)That was . . . interesting but not really what they were going for here. Duke clapped his hands. "Well, you know, you should have seen Detective Wuornos questioning Tyler in there. It was -- it was -- good."
Oh, that was pathetic.
Lexie raised an eyebrow, smirking a little. "Really?"
Nathan was all business again. "Sounds like he was affected by the same thing Josh was, and in both cases, Katie was right there, so she could have some sort of 'black widow' trouble. Uh, brainwashing guys to try and kill themselves."
Lexie lost her smirk about halfway through that. "And . . . Troubled people in this town. They can do that stuff?"
Re: Hospital, part one
Date: 2022-03-29 10:05 pm (UTC)Re: Hospital, part one
Date: 2022-03-29 10:07 pm (UTC)That seemed rhetorical to the boys, so neither bothered to try to answer. Nathan just led the way back out of the hospital, intent on going to find Katie again.