Hollywoodland

What IS thaumaturgy, you may ask? According to my friend Webster, it’s the working of miracles or wonders. Sounds good for a book filled with magic.

Okay, let’s see if I can remember everything that happened. It was a pretty busy episode and I’m not sure I kept up as well as I should have.

Jay & Tyler joined forces with the dude who keeps following them and/or getting them out of trouble. They followed the white van Will had been tossed into. Only two more vans joined the parade to make it more difficult to figure out which one was which. Clever! Only the black dude (does the poor man have a name??? ah, I see elsewhere he’s referred to as Porter) had wisely tagged Will with a tracking device! More clever! Only the guys who grabbed Will had a doohickey that told them he’d been tagged and they cut the tracker out. Ouch! Bummer.

Jay, Tyler & Porter kept driving (out in the country) and came across a barn that very conveniently concealed the van Will had been in. There was blood all over the place. Suddenly, from the adjacent field (of corn, I think) somebody started shooting at them. Porter told the boys to get the heck out of Dodge. So they did. But when we next saw them, they were parked on the side of the road going through all the stuff Porter had in his SUV. And it looked like they’d only gone about a quarter of a mile.

Meanwhile, Will wakes up in a hotel room. A woman enters. He asks if she’s a part of Hometown (a subdivision of Homeland Security? Or something more sinister? I’m still pulling for it to be the Illuminati. ). She says yes and starts asking him lots of questions about his “mission”. Turns out he was supposed to have set up Jay & Tyler to take the fall for the bombing, only they were supposed to die. But when Will got to where the bomb was located some other guy was there. So Will knew his bosses no longer trusted him. He killed the guy (who was the body found after the explosion), cut out that painting (which I got a better look at—it seems to be a painting of the Continental Congress by John Trumbull), then he pulled the fire alarm and got out.

The FBI coroner figured out the body wasn’t Will while all this was going on. So now the FBI knows Will is alive. But they still think Jay & Tyler are involved. Naturally. Then they (the FBI) go to the dead guy’s apartment and discover the guy who works for the Homeland Security dude there destroying evidence. He basically laughs at them after they arrest him. Then he manages to escape from custody.

The chick interrogating Will plays what turns out to be a recording of his girlfriend Maya being tortured so he’ll give up the location of the painting. He says it’s in the trunk of a car at the airport long term parking. (But when a guy goes there to get it, he finds a bomb instead. Ka-boom!) Then the chick tells him Maya’s already dead because she’d killed her two hours before. Will manages to escape and kill the bitch (and she really wasn’t very nice and I think she got just what she deserved). She died with quite a look of surprise on her face. *g*

Jay & Tyler, meanwhile find out the key they got from Maya is for a research locker at a library in Boston, so they head off to Bean Town. Turns out it was a secret stash of passports (of various nationalities) for Will, a gun, and some other papers, etc. Something leads them to head back to NYC (I managed to miss that part *sigh*)

Then they show Will leaving the hotel room and discovering it was more of a movie set inside a warehouse or something. He walks outside with a peculiar expression on his face, but they didn’t show the audience what he was seeing. Very rude!

I wrote two and a half pages last night! Maddie & Alex have offered to play detective and find out why the chandelier came crashing down. Though they need to hurry before the cops arrive as I’m sure they would. *g* I suppose they could always play the Royal card if need be, but I hate to do that. I guess we’ll just see how things go tonight.

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