We start off with Dave in a police station interrogation room where he’s been for who knows how long. He’s our unreliable narrator, so he can’t tell which.
Saying “Morgan Freeman stepped in and laid a manila folder before me” makes me laugh because is he saying a guy that looks like Morgan Freeman? Or he’s hallucinating Morgan Freeman due to the black goo from the syringe? Talking about a white cop following in, I’m surprised he didn’t say Brad Pitt came in next lol! Se7en anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Admitting that he doesn’t actually think the cop looks like Morgan Freeman but can’t think of which actor he reminds him of is both hilarious and kinda stupid. However, I’m the kind of person that will go nuts if I can’t think of the actor’s name and stop at nothing until I figure it out.
Also, lots of unnecessary swearing that comes off more juvenile and false angsty or edgy than someone who’s legitimately pissed off. It’s just not needed. I’ve added a new rating scale for swearing and updated my Rating System blog post. (Click here. It’s the fish one).
Due to the goo (lol, the rhyme), Dave can now hear, see, and have some sort of premonition to all that’s going on around him in the interrogation room.
Apparently, all of the people at the party the night before are either dead or headed that direction. Does this have anything to do with Faux Bob Marley and the “voodoo goo?”
Now, Dave is reading people and their backgrounds at a supernatural level. Like Dr. Temperance Brennan’s astute observations on bones from Bones and Dr. Cal Lightman instantly witnessing every micro-expressions on everyone’s faces from Lie to Me had a child that Dean and Sam Winchester from Supernatural might consult to find that one elusive cryptid.
“Once, when I was twelve, for reasons that made sense at the time I filled a blender with some ice cubes and three cans of maraschino cherries. I didn’t know you had to use a lid on one of those things, so I got the button and watched it erupt like a volcano. The room in the cop’s photographs looked like the resulting mess in our kitchen that day, everything a red spray with lumps.”
I was cronching a mini cuke when I read this and literally paused, cringed, made an “ew, I’m eating” face, and continued on. Well done and gross.
Oooooh-kay? That took me by surprise!
“Your friend is dead.”
My brain automatically went to John, and how is he dead? He can’t be because this isn’t the end, and John Dies at the End, and this is a flashback and John was alive in the prologue which happened afterwards. Unless he wasn’t, and Dave has a ghost following him around everywhere!
And rude! A scene break pulling us completely out of Dave’s story to back where we started with the reporter because the tape recorder tape ran out of space….amusing and so very irritating!
And the tiny paragraph has my brain swirling:
The waitress swept by and claimed my plate, dropped off a fortune cookie and my ticket. She ignored Arnie…” as in the reporter. Is Arnie even there? Or is Dave seeing ghosts left and right???
Well, well, well! Dave is currently taking the voodoo black goo!! He must have found more! It isn’t a one and done sort of ability. This insinuates this hyper senses ability fades with time.
Arnie, the reporter, says Dave has a good premise for a book, and I think that’s hilariously meta.
Dave shows Arnie this thing in a dog carrier in the back of his truck. It’s empty at first, and then, when seen out of the corner of your eye and an open mind, you see something so freaky, that it made Arnie wig out. So very interesting! What is it? What does it look like?
Oooooo!!!! I’m kicking my feet in excitement! Dave just got a call from John asking if he’s died yet and to get out of the police station and the white cop (Morgan Freeman left because John died) isn’t real in the normal sense. He doesn’t have a reflection. Instantly, I’m super intrigued and giggling like a giddy idiot!
Dave escapes the insane not cop with a bat moustache and leaves the station. More phone calls from the beyond? Future? Whatever, John calls again and gives instructions. This leads Dave to use a hotdog as a new phone when his old one dies. This is so nuts!
I can’t wait to read more!
Current rating:
•Diet Coke
•Air
•Creepy Vibes
•I Put Down My Edamame For This
•Actual Laugh
•A Little Sad
•Le Homemade Gourmet French Fries Pinky Up Eating with Aioli Fancy
•Swiss Cheese
•Flips between Autopsy and Obliteration with the descriptions of the crime scene photos
•Pecan Pie
•A mix of Semi-Sweet and 70% Dark Chocolate
•Squid Ink Carbonara
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