A Guide to The Sentinel Adversaries, a Complement for the Sentinel Adversaries Podfics
The Sentinel Adversaries Anthology
First off, I didn't write this post. magician113 did. It was written to be a guide for listeners or readers who aren't that familiar with the villians that are described in the podfics I did. I appreciate this very much, I feel she has a real knack for description and summarizing.
She did it for my podfic project, which is 21 short stories and drabbles about the bad guys from the Sentinel. I only did canon villains, and the podfics will be posted after this post goes live.
There is an abridged version of the following that was recorded for the podfics, which are available in single file versions or the entire files, in a folder. They come in music and non music version.
I will post podfic information in my LJ later this week, but all the relevant download information can be found at amplificathon HERE
The Sentinel Adversaries Anthology Text Guide by Magician113.
Garrett Kincaid (Season 01 Episode 02 - Siege and Season 04 Episode 60 - Four Point Shot)
Kincaid is the first super-villain we see in The Sentinel. He definitely has an agenda that’s larger than life. At the beginning of the second episode, we see his minions infiltrating the Cascade Police Department by stealth. They block the 911 system and send most of the force on a bogus emergency, thus allowing Kincaid’s gang to take over and lock down the Central Station.
Kincaid leads a quasi-militia group called The Sunrise Patriots, but it’s not clear what its philosophy or long-term goals are, other than causing mayhem. Their immediate goal is to free two of their group who were convicted of a ferry boat bombing as well as to thumb their noses at the police and the Governor. During the siege he confront Blair, who was trapped in the building while getting his ride-along credentials. Their interaction is memorable, as is Jim’s use of his senses to eventually defeat the group as he and Simon save the day.
Kincaid is cold-blooded and charismatic, but essentially a coward. He risks the lives of his men, is indiscriminant in his treatment of innocent people (whom he claims to be a champion of) and he terrorizes a 14-year-old boy by hanging him out a window in order to threaten his PD captain father. When they are ready to leave, he instructs two of his men to kill all of the hostages, not wishing to do the dirty work himself. He takes Blair with him to act as a human shield, but doesn’t afford his men the same advantage. When he’s accidentally tossed out of their escape helicopter, he claims he would rather die than submit to being captures; until Jim starts to shake him loose. Then he changes his tune and the visuals of him clasping on to Jim’s leg as they both hang from the helicopter skid is memorable. At the end of “Siege” he’s led away still blustering but essentially toothless.
When Kincaid reappears in the episode “Four Point Shot”, he’s escaped from prison and decides to hold a stadium full of basketball fans hostage (thus the title reference). We see a much changed man who does and says bizarre and contradictory things. Only his capacity for indiscriminant killing remains; he comes off as much more cartoony and a much less interesting character. Fanfic reflects this. While there are any number of stories that surround Siege and post-Siege Kincaid, there’s been virtually nothing written about Four Point Shot and its aftermath.
Lee Brackett (Season 01 Episode 07 - Rogue)
Lee Brackett is one of the most popular villains from TS. He’s featured in any number of stories, either through missing scenes and epilogues, or with AUs that have him showing up and doing the most outlandish things. Why is he so fascinating to writers? Well, his character is interesting and well rounded. He’s the title character of the episode - a rogue CIA agent who excelled in his job and now has his own agenda, which includes complex planning and psychological game-playing. He’s also someone from Jim’s past. We find out that he debriefed the officer who extracted Jim from the Peruvian jungle and learned about Jim’s “hallucinatory behavior”. He was smart enough to put two and two together when he read Blair’s undergraduate paper on primitive sentinels and realized that Jim had sentinel abilities. As a result he uses that knowledge (and some stolen Ebola virius) to blackmail Jim into stealing something for him.
He’s also charming, in a sometimes smirky way. You can see that he likes having the upper hand. And yet he also reaches out to Jim and Blair; explaining things to them and perhaps even trying to get them to understand his side of things.
He’s a foe who is on par with Jim in his abilities and background. Although he was CIA and Jim was an Army Ranger who did covert ops missions, they are both well versed in the military mindset. Both know the seedier side of the world. And, truth be told, Jim could have gone down Brackett’s path if things had been just a bit different. Or Brackett could have been Jim. So, they share an uneasy kinship.
And, finally, Brackett is responsible for the widespread use of the term “guide” for Blair’s position of companion and backup to the sentinel. He uses the word once, and in an off-hand way. Yet it has become one of the most enduring concepts in TS fanfic.
David Lash (Season 01 Episode 05 - Cypher)
In this episode, a serial killer is on the loose, with the M.O. being the victims are drowned and left with yellow scarves tied around their necks. We learn that the killer is even more sinister - after he kills a victim, he assumes their identity and then uses it to move on to the next victim. A psychologist is helping Cascade PD profile the killer, and his analysis is spot on. Shortly we discover why; the psychologist was the latest victim and the killer has been posing as the doctor. The killer is none other than one of the show’s most memorable villains - David Lash.
David is a complex character. As Jim questions his father, we learn that he was always considered a “bad seed”; rejected and severely abused by his mother and unprotected by his father. There’s a suspicion that he killed the brother who was his mother’s favorite. He’s got enough on the ball mentally to carry out the crimes, elude the police (including Jim) and successfully stalk and kidnap Blair as his next victim. Although he’s eventually defeated and killed by Jim, he remains a fascinating character and many stories have been written about him.
Maya Carrasco (Season 01 Episode 08 - Love and Guns and Season 02 Episode 20 - Second Chance)
Ah, Maya. Fans either love her or hate her. In Love and Guns, we find out that Maya’s father is a gun smuggler and murderer, unbeknownst to her. She is like a sheltered princess; knowing nothing of her father’s dealings and going to school at Rainier. Jim convinces Blair to chat her up, hoping to get information on Carrasco’s organization. She becomes infatuated with Blair and Blair falls in love with her, but refuses to consummate anything because he knows he has an unfair advantage over her. Eventually, Carrasco is taken down and Maya decides to return to her homeland of Chile. She is deeply wounded at Blair’s betrayal. He ends up shedding a few tears over her.
In Second Chance, we find out that she wasn’t worth it. In this convoluted plot, Maya convinces Jim and Blair that she’s a victim of the Chilean cartel her father was a part of and her life is in danger. In actuality it’s part of a scheme with her new boyfriend, Francisco, to gain access to her father’s millions. She thinks they will do something philanthropic with the money; he wants to start his own cartel. In the end there’s murder and mayhem as a result. Francisco is arrested and Maya is deported back to Chile; this time for good.
Iris (Season 03 Episode 37 -The Girl Next Door)
Of all the villains in The Sentinel, Iris is the one who is invariably referred to as “sleazy” by fans. She certainly starts off on the wrong foot - the first time we see her she is arguing with her ex-boyfriend, who locks her in the trunk of her car. Blair comes by to save her and she repays him by telling one lie after another. In short order she’s involved him in a scam to rip off heroin from a local drug dealer and doesn’t seem to mind when his life is threatened. In fact, she doesn’t seem to care about anyone but herself, as she double-deals pretty much everybody in order to come out ahead.
In the end, she remains unredeemed and unrepentant. She causes an inordinate amount of trouble for Blair, who ends up getting arrested (a controversial decision) as a result of his association with her. A lasting impact of Iris and this episode in fanfic is Blair’s reputation for having dubious taste in women.
Alex Barnes aka Alicia Bannister (Season 03 Episode 37 - Sentinel Too, Part One and Season 04 Episode 38 - Sentinel Too, Part Two)
Alex has to be one of the most perfect villains ever. She’s smart, tough, inventive, ruthless and she has the senses! It has to be the greatest showdown since Superman had to face the Kryptonian criminals after they escaped from the Phantom Zone!
As with Jim, Alex’s senses are out of control and she’s suffering. By chance Blair overhears her descriptions and offers to help. What he doesn’t realize is that she’s a criminal and is, in fact, the focus of one of Jim’s investigations. Later, she reveals to him that the period of isolation that brought on her senses was being in prison solitary confinement. In the meantime, Jim is getting successively more twitchy until he starts behaving bizarrely. Blair theorizes that it’s the proximity of another sentinel in his territory that’s doing it.
Alex had the potential to be more powerful than Jim. Once she understood them, she embraced them and the spiritual visions that went with them much more openly than Jim ever did. And she immediately understood what fighting against a fellow sentinel entails - much more so than Jim who gets outmaneuvered by her and almost killed as a result. And, of course, he’s unable to interpret his vision of Blair’s death correctly. As a result she drowns Blair.
But she also has vulnerability which makes her so appealing to write about. She also is drawn to Jim in an unexplained way and wants to share her visions with him. She lures him to the temple, not to kill an enemy but to find a soulmate, or perhaps a consort as she becomes queen of the world. And, despite every bad thing that she does, Jim does not want to see her destroyed - he reaches out but it is too late.
Alex’s influence on fanfic in incalculable. Not only is she an interesting character in and of herself, but she provides the example that not all sentinels are going to be Jim clones, or even decent human beings. Before she showed up, there was little fic written about sentinels other than Jim. Now there are whole universes of people who have enhanced senses and yet are as different as nature and nurture allow.
Carl Hettinger (Season 03 Episode 37 - Sentinel Too, Part One and Season 04 Episode 38 - Sentinel Too, Part Two)
Carl Hettinger is the partner and sometimes lover of Alex Barnes. We never find out how long they have worked together, but they’ve made a lot of money. While she commits the actual crimes, he does the planning and fences the goods she steals. He know about her senses and likes the edge they give her, but is concerned that she’s becoming a liability. She assures him that Blair is going to help her control them. He’s unhappy that anyone knows her secret, but she says she’ll “take care of” Blair after she gets what she needs from him.
After that one scene is S2P1, Carl doesn’t appear again until the next episode. We find out that Carl has quite the reputation - international weapons trafficking and ties to South American drug lords. Jim’s flashes of vision convince him that Hettinger and Alex are probably in Sierra Verde, and he and Simon follow them there. Meanwhile. Carl and Alex are arguing because she want to go with him when he fences the nerve gas she’s stolen. She’s suspicious; justifiably so. It turns out he’s going to get $5 million, but tells her they will get $4 mill. Unfortunately, he didn’t realize how good her hearing is and the next time we see him, he’s in the local morgue with a broken neck. Bye bye Carl.
Veronica Archer (Season 04 Episode 61 - Dead End on Blank Street)
If anyone epitomizes Jim’s reputation for dating beautiful but totally wrong for him women, it’s Veronica. Although Jim has successfully used his senses to figure out whether people are lying, he’s apparently unable to screen anyone he’s emotionally involved with. As a result, Veronica and her husband Alan are able to totally fool Jim when they come to him for help.
We find out that Jim, Alan and Veronica all knew each other nine years previously, when both men were in the service. Jim and Veronica spent a night of passion together. The next day when he comes to visit, bringing flowers, he sees her kissing Alan and leaves. Apparently she and Alan married not long after. When Jim crosses paths with Alan in Cascade at the start of the episode, it seems like a chance meeting of old friends. But to his chagrin he learns that the couple planned to use and deceive him. What he doesn’t know is just how devious Veronica is, and to what extent she will use everyone around her. Beautiful, sophisticated and intelligent, in the end she turns out to be just as selfish and sleazy as Iris. Just not nearly as obvious. Fanfic writers seem to agree - very little fanfic has been written about either woman.
Veronica Sarris aka “The Switchman”
Veronica is the first villain in the show, and is known for most of the episode only as The Switchman, a serial bomber who leaves notes taunting Jim, who is the lead investigator. It is the Switchman case that Jim is working on when his senses manifest. He discovers that she had demolitions experience in the Navy before being discharged for mental instability. It turns out that her father was one of the men who died during Jim’s ill-fated Army mission to Peru and she blames Jim for not saving her dad.
Laura McCarthy
Laura walks into a bar where Jim and Blair are chatting with some women. Jim moves irresistibly towards her, seeming to lose all reason in her presence, and they quickly fall into bed together. Jim is also investigating a string of high-end robberies. At each scene his senses are detecting something he can’t define. Blair figures out that Jim’s atypical reaction to Laura is because his senses are picking up her pheromones, to which he is strongly attracted. And the thing he detects at the robbery scenes? Her lingering scent. She and two brothers (one is her ex) are the thieves. The trio ends up plotting against each other with the result that their successful partnership falls apart, and Jim resists her scent long enough to arrest her.
Dell (Season 02 Episode 32 -Survival)
Dell is probably the most reluctant villain in the show, if you can call him a villain at all. He’s a friend to Wade Rooker, a man whose cabin is broken into by the real villain of the episode, Dawson Quinn. As a result, Rooker decides to go after Quinn to steal the $5 million Quinn has hidden, and he doesn’t care whether he has to shoot a few cops to get the money. Dell follows him but is constantly trying to throw doubt on Wade’s plans, acting like a conscience.
When the men come across Blair, who’s resting after getting banged up and suffering from a possible concussion, Wade decides that in order to succeed with his plans, he has to kill everyone who could be a witness. This, of course, includes Blair. Dell argues with him, not wanting Wade to kill anyone. As they struggle with the gun, it goes off and kills Dell. Blair makes his escape while the two men struggle. So, in a way, Dell ends up being more heroic than villainous. Wade is upset that his friend was killed, but continues unremorsefully to pursue Quinn’s money.
podfic links will be added as they are uploaded.
Much appreciation goes to Magician113 and pictures are from Starfox's Mansion.
Laurie
First off, I didn't write this post. magician113 did. It was written to be a guide for listeners or readers who aren't that familiar with the villians that are described in the podfics I did. I appreciate this very much, I feel she has a real knack for description and summarizing.
She did it for my podfic project, which is 21 short stories and drabbles about the bad guys from the Sentinel. I only did canon villains, and the podfics will be posted after this post goes live.
There is an abridged version of the following that was recorded for the podfics, which are available in single file versions or the entire files, in a folder. They come in music and non music version.
I will post podfic information in my LJ later this week, but all the relevant download information can be found at amplificathon HERE
The Sentinel Adversaries Anthology Text Guide by Magician113.
Garrett Kincaid (Season 01 Episode 02 - Siege and Season 04 Episode 60 - Four Point Shot)
Kincaid is the first super-villain we see in The Sentinel. He definitely has an agenda that’s larger than life. At the beginning of the second episode, we see his minions infiltrating the Cascade Police Department by stealth. They block the 911 system and send most of the force on a bogus emergency, thus allowing Kincaid’s gang to take over and lock down the Central Station.
Kincaid leads a quasi-militia group called The Sunrise Patriots, but it’s not clear what its philosophy or long-term goals are, other than causing mayhem. Their immediate goal is to free two of their group who were convicted of a ferry boat bombing as well as to thumb their noses at the police and the Governor. During the siege he confront Blair, who was trapped in the building while getting his ride-along credentials. Their interaction is memorable, as is Jim’s use of his senses to eventually defeat the group as he and Simon save the day.
Kincaid is cold-blooded and charismatic, but essentially a coward. He risks the lives of his men, is indiscriminant in his treatment of innocent people (whom he claims to be a champion of) and he terrorizes a 14-year-old boy by hanging him out a window in order to threaten his PD captain father. When they are ready to leave, he instructs two of his men to kill all of the hostages, not wishing to do the dirty work himself. He takes Blair with him to act as a human shield, but doesn’t afford his men the same advantage. When he’s accidentally tossed out of their escape helicopter, he claims he would rather die than submit to being captures; until Jim starts to shake him loose. Then he changes his tune and the visuals of him clasping on to Jim’s leg as they both hang from the helicopter skid is memorable. At the end of “Siege” he’s led away still blustering but essentially toothless.
When Kincaid reappears in the episode “Four Point Shot”, he’s escaped from prison and decides to hold a stadium full of basketball fans hostage (thus the title reference). We see a much changed man who does and says bizarre and contradictory things. Only his capacity for indiscriminant killing remains; he comes off as much more cartoony and a much less interesting character. Fanfic reflects this. While there are any number of stories that surround Siege and post-Siege Kincaid, there’s been virtually nothing written about Four Point Shot and its aftermath.
Lee Brackett (Season 01 Episode 07 - Rogue)
Lee Brackett is one of the most popular villains from TS. He’s featured in any number of stories, either through missing scenes and epilogues, or with AUs that have him showing up and doing the most outlandish things. Why is he so fascinating to writers? Well, his character is interesting and well rounded. He’s the title character of the episode - a rogue CIA agent who excelled in his job and now has his own agenda, which includes complex planning and psychological game-playing. He’s also someone from Jim’s past. We find out that he debriefed the officer who extracted Jim from the Peruvian jungle and learned about Jim’s “hallucinatory behavior”. He was smart enough to put two and two together when he read Blair’s undergraduate paper on primitive sentinels and realized that Jim had sentinel abilities. As a result he uses that knowledge (and some stolen Ebola virius) to blackmail Jim into stealing something for him.
He’s also charming, in a sometimes smirky way. You can see that he likes having the upper hand. And yet he also reaches out to Jim and Blair; explaining things to them and perhaps even trying to get them to understand his side of things.
He’s a foe who is on par with Jim in his abilities and background. Although he was CIA and Jim was an Army Ranger who did covert ops missions, they are both well versed in the military mindset. Both know the seedier side of the world. And, truth be told, Jim could have gone down Brackett’s path if things had been just a bit different. Or Brackett could have been Jim. So, they share an uneasy kinship.
And, finally, Brackett is responsible for the widespread use of the term “guide” for Blair’s position of companion and backup to the sentinel. He uses the word once, and in an off-hand way. Yet it has become one of the most enduring concepts in TS fanfic.
David Lash (Season 01 Episode 05 - Cypher)
In this episode, a serial killer is on the loose, with the M.O. being the victims are drowned and left with yellow scarves tied around their necks. We learn that the killer is even more sinister - after he kills a victim, he assumes their identity and then uses it to move on to the next victim. A psychologist is helping Cascade PD profile the killer, and his analysis is spot on. Shortly we discover why; the psychologist was the latest victim and the killer has been posing as the doctor. The killer is none other than one of the show’s most memorable villains - David Lash.
David is a complex character. As Jim questions his father, we learn that he was always considered a “bad seed”; rejected and severely abused by his mother and unprotected by his father. There’s a suspicion that he killed the brother who was his mother’s favorite. He’s got enough on the ball mentally to carry out the crimes, elude the police (including Jim) and successfully stalk and kidnap Blair as his next victim. Although he’s eventually defeated and killed by Jim, he remains a fascinating character and many stories have been written about him.
Maya Carrasco (Season 01 Episode 08 - Love and Guns and Season 02 Episode 20 - Second Chance)
Ah, Maya. Fans either love her or hate her. In Love and Guns, we find out that Maya’s father is a gun smuggler and murderer, unbeknownst to her. She is like a sheltered princess; knowing nothing of her father’s dealings and going to school at Rainier. Jim convinces Blair to chat her up, hoping to get information on Carrasco’s organization. She becomes infatuated with Blair and Blair falls in love with her, but refuses to consummate anything because he knows he has an unfair advantage over her. Eventually, Carrasco is taken down and Maya decides to return to her homeland of Chile. She is deeply wounded at Blair’s betrayal. He ends up shedding a few tears over her.
In Second Chance, we find out that she wasn’t worth it. In this convoluted plot, Maya convinces Jim and Blair that she’s a victim of the Chilean cartel her father was a part of and her life is in danger. In actuality it’s part of a scheme with her new boyfriend, Francisco, to gain access to her father’s millions. She thinks they will do something philanthropic with the money; he wants to start his own cartel. In the end there’s murder and mayhem as a result. Francisco is arrested and Maya is deported back to Chile; this time for good.
Iris (Season 03 Episode 37 -The Girl Next Door)
Of all the villains in The Sentinel, Iris is the one who is invariably referred to as “sleazy” by fans. She certainly starts off on the wrong foot - the first time we see her she is arguing with her ex-boyfriend, who locks her in the trunk of her car. Blair comes by to save her and she repays him by telling one lie after another. In short order she’s involved him in a scam to rip off heroin from a local drug dealer and doesn’t seem to mind when his life is threatened. In fact, she doesn’t seem to care about anyone but herself, as she double-deals pretty much everybody in order to come out ahead.
In the end, she remains unredeemed and unrepentant. She causes an inordinate amount of trouble for Blair, who ends up getting arrested (a controversial decision) as a result of his association with her. A lasting impact of Iris and this episode in fanfic is Blair’s reputation for having dubious taste in women.
Alex Barnes aka Alicia Bannister (Season 03 Episode 37 - Sentinel Too, Part One and Season 04 Episode 38 - Sentinel Too, Part Two)
Alex has to be one of the most perfect villains ever. She’s smart, tough, inventive, ruthless and she has the senses! It has to be the greatest showdown since Superman had to face the Kryptonian criminals after they escaped from the Phantom Zone!
As with Jim, Alex’s senses are out of control and she’s suffering. By chance Blair overhears her descriptions and offers to help. What he doesn’t realize is that she’s a criminal and is, in fact, the focus of one of Jim’s investigations. Later, she reveals to him that the period of isolation that brought on her senses was being in prison solitary confinement. In the meantime, Jim is getting successively more twitchy until he starts behaving bizarrely. Blair theorizes that it’s the proximity of another sentinel in his territory that’s doing it.
Alex had the potential to be more powerful than Jim. Once she understood them, she embraced them and the spiritual visions that went with them much more openly than Jim ever did. And she immediately understood what fighting against a fellow sentinel entails - much more so than Jim who gets outmaneuvered by her and almost killed as a result. And, of course, he’s unable to interpret his vision of Blair’s death correctly. As a result she drowns Blair.
But she also has vulnerability which makes her so appealing to write about. She also is drawn to Jim in an unexplained way and wants to share her visions with him. She lures him to the temple, not to kill an enemy but to find a soulmate, or perhaps a consort as she becomes queen of the world. And, despite every bad thing that she does, Jim does not want to see her destroyed - he reaches out but it is too late.
Alex’s influence on fanfic in incalculable. Not only is she an interesting character in and of herself, but she provides the example that not all sentinels are going to be Jim clones, or even decent human beings. Before she showed up, there was little fic written about sentinels other than Jim. Now there are whole universes of people who have enhanced senses and yet are as different as nature and nurture allow.
Carl Hettinger (Season 03 Episode 37 - Sentinel Too, Part One and Season 04 Episode 38 - Sentinel Too, Part Two)
Carl Hettinger is the partner and sometimes lover of Alex Barnes. We never find out how long they have worked together, but they’ve made a lot of money. While she commits the actual crimes, he does the planning and fences the goods she steals. He know about her senses and likes the edge they give her, but is concerned that she’s becoming a liability. She assures him that Blair is going to help her control them. He’s unhappy that anyone knows her secret, but she says she’ll “take care of” Blair after she gets what she needs from him.
After that one scene is S2P1, Carl doesn’t appear again until the next episode. We find out that Carl has quite the reputation - international weapons trafficking and ties to South American drug lords. Jim’s flashes of vision convince him that Hettinger and Alex are probably in Sierra Verde, and he and Simon follow them there. Meanwhile. Carl and Alex are arguing because she want to go with him when he fences the nerve gas she’s stolen. She’s suspicious; justifiably so. It turns out he’s going to get $5 million, but tells her they will get $4 mill. Unfortunately, he didn’t realize how good her hearing is and the next time we see him, he’s in the local morgue with a broken neck. Bye bye Carl.
Veronica Archer (Season 04 Episode 61 - Dead End on Blank Street)
If anyone epitomizes Jim’s reputation for dating beautiful but totally wrong for him women, it’s Veronica. Although Jim has successfully used his senses to figure out whether people are lying, he’s apparently unable to screen anyone he’s emotionally involved with. As a result, Veronica and her husband Alan are able to totally fool Jim when they come to him for help.
We find out that Jim, Alan and Veronica all knew each other nine years previously, when both men were in the service. Jim and Veronica spent a night of passion together. The next day when he comes to visit, bringing flowers, he sees her kissing Alan and leaves. Apparently she and Alan married not long after. When Jim crosses paths with Alan in Cascade at the start of the episode, it seems like a chance meeting of old friends. But to his chagrin he learns that the couple planned to use and deceive him. What he doesn’t know is just how devious Veronica is, and to what extent she will use everyone around her. Beautiful, sophisticated and intelligent, in the end she turns out to be just as selfish and sleazy as Iris. Just not nearly as obvious. Fanfic writers seem to agree - very little fanfic has been written about either woman.
Veronica Sarris aka “The Switchman”
Veronica is the first villain in the show, and is known for most of the episode only as The Switchman, a serial bomber who leaves notes taunting Jim, who is the lead investigator. It is the Switchman case that Jim is working on when his senses manifest. He discovers that she had demolitions experience in the Navy before being discharged for mental instability. It turns out that her father was one of the men who died during Jim’s ill-fated Army mission to Peru and she blames Jim for not saving her dad.
Laura McCarthy
Laura walks into a bar where Jim and Blair are chatting with some women. Jim moves irresistibly towards her, seeming to lose all reason in her presence, and they quickly fall into bed together. Jim is also investigating a string of high-end robberies. At each scene his senses are detecting something he can’t define. Blair figures out that Jim’s atypical reaction to Laura is because his senses are picking up her pheromones, to which he is strongly attracted. And the thing he detects at the robbery scenes? Her lingering scent. She and two brothers (one is her ex) are the thieves. The trio ends up plotting against each other with the result that their successful partnership falls apart, and Jim resists her scent long enough to arrest her.
Dell (Season 02 Episode 32 -Survival)
Dell is probably the most reluctant villain in the show, if you can call him a villain at all. He’s a friend to Wade Rooker, a man whose cabin is broken into by the real villain of the episode, Dawson Quinn. As a result, Rooker decides to go after Quinn to steal the $5 million Quinn has hidden, and he doesn’t care whether he has to shoot a few cops to get the money. Dell follows him but is constantly trying to throw doubt on Wade’s plans, acting like a conscience.
When the men come across Blair, who’s resting after getting banged up and suffering from a possible concussion, Wade decides that in order to succeed with his plans, he has to kill everyone who could be a witness. This, of course, includes Blair. Dell argues with him, not wanting Wade to kill anyone. As they struggle with the gun, it goes off and kills Dell. Blair makes his escape while the two men struggle. So, in a way, Dell ends up being more heroic than villainous. Wade is upset that his friend was killed, but continues unremorsefully to pursue Quinn’s money.
podfic links will be added as they are uploaded.
Much appreciation goes to Magician113 and pictures are from Starfox's Mansion.
Laurie