Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Episode 104

Made desperate by hunger, Rajiv sneaks into Magnus Adversson's kitchen on Princess Lakshmi's side of the divided castle.  Baffled by the idea of Goober (peanut butter and jelly in the same jar) he doesn't hear the Princess enter until too late.  The bond over the ridiculousness of American food before remembering they should be mad at each other.  Princess Lakshmi has an ultimatum: say or do something to make it better, or I'll go back to my kingdom in India.  Rajiv offers to take her out for baklava.  The princess agrees.

Dating profile: McShane3701, password "Love".  23 messages.  Single Angela gets help from her sisters Samantha, the suave one, and Mona, the poet.  Mona dictates: "Roses are red.  Violets are blue.  I would like to meet you."  Samantha sends, along with a bikini picture of Angela.  Mona's med school experience helps her determine that the picture McShane responds with is a close-up of his bellybutton.  The date is set, and Angela makes her sisters promise to back her up on the day.

Detective Smegley holds down the fort, entering Nurse's missing person data.  Dr. Scarlett appears suddenly and demands information.  Detective Smegley has her location as "some cafĂ©".  In the precinct's holding cell, Lady Wonderjam demands attention.  Detective Smegley refuses to release her until the Commissioner arrives, despite Lady Wonderjam's urgent need to help her super-brethren hold off the merpeople.  While the detective has been away from his desk, Dr. Scarlett (or is it H.A.L.?) has been on the police department's computer...  After the detective leaves Lady Wonderjam, a fellow superhero, Toledo Sam, uses a blowtorch to create a hole in the bottom of the cell.  They whoosh away.  Returning too late, Detective Smegley cries, "Holy smokes!  She's gone!" and puts out an APB on "a girl".

In a posh shop on a posh road in a posh section Solomon's River, the shop owner is startled by a posh woman, long thought to be dead: the Lady who would have become Lady Adversson!  The Lady reveals a mysterious "they" injected her with "lots of stuff", but alive she is, and looking younger than ever.  The shop owner has kept all the clothes the Lady had left for alteration, including her wedding dress.  Magnus was "sorely disappointed" to have lost his bride-to-be, but the Lady reveals that Magnus' brother was "so much more attractive".  The shop owner swoons with the gossip and the Lady requests not her old, fashionable clothes, but rather camouflage.  The shop owner promises a beautiful camo gown.
  • Is baklava enough to heal the victim of multiple kidnappings?
  • How will Angela's date go with a man who sends potential girlfriends close-up pictures of his belly button?
  • Will poor Detective Smegley ever get help so people like H.A.L. and superheroes can't keep doing things behind his back?
  • Who is the woman who would have been Magnus' wife?
  • Who is Magnus' brother?
  • What does this woman want with camouflage clothes?
Find out the answer to these questions and more as we make it all up in, Solomon's River!