Jolie Fleming > Recent Status Updates

Sister Gee: "Y'all don't watch out for us. Y'all watch over us." The Christmas Club money is all we can control.
Potts: Earl arrested but Dean much worse.
Sports Coat meets Elephant; calls mom Miss Four Pies
Hattie was "following God's light, looking for a moonflower."
SC mentions writing about Jesus wall: May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Governor wants Elephant to help with his bagel business. E attracted to G's daughter who will inherit. First has to find reliquary box. - In His hands. Underlying hatred of "white Europeans."
Lightbulb tries to rat out Deems to Bed-Stuy Bunch (Earl's boss). Deems acting like a cop: won't sell to grandmothers/children/churchgoers. Bunch calling in Harold Dean to be hit man.
Potts warms Sister Gee about Harold Dean.

Elephant's Italian mother bonds with Sport Coat over plants, especially weeds, E's crew pulled Hattie's body from river. E doesn't engage in heroin trafficking. Only trust someone who trusts. Joe Peck tries to draw him in-just once. E refuses. E-a solitary middle-aged man in the August of his life looking for a few more Aprils. "I wish somebody would love me."
Another attempt on SC's life foiled - Earl electrocuted.

Everybody went to jail in the Cause eventually.
Neighborhood coming out party for Soup upon his release.
Earl trying to kill Sportcoat but keeps get hit be bizarre "accidents." Flying baseballs, glass ashtrays

Interplay reminds of Amos/Andy and August Wilson plays. 1960s/71/Cuffy Jasper Lambkin
Hattie's funeral-usual death extravaganza.
King Kong-special blend of white lightening
Deems: New Breed of colored in the Cause
Elephant: Disease of Greed. Everything you are, will be in this cruel world, depends on your word
Cops steal wounded Deems' money
Sister Gee: Things got unstable when that new drug (heroin) come in.

Circumstantial evidence mounts; Dad prevents Holly stopping confession Selena-Chris was many things. Killer certain she was took right action. Holly made/ brought card to Moran, sure it was Joanne; never posted on Secret Place. Killer finally realizes she did wrong thing.
Poem: Of crowds of danger should appear, yet friendship can be unconcerned (E. Philips): Bad times happen but friends help through them.

Conway finds all but Holly in grove. Gets Julia to admit to protecting Selena; sent text about Joanna’s key. Took “bullet” for S.C/M reassure that S is in the clear. Julia kept SIM card fromS’s phone to use if Selena charged.
Rebecca took Chris’s red phone and hid it in room.
Holly tells them how to respond to questioning, including that detectives lie to see response. Becca acts like kid. Later tats her stomach.

Gemma reports seeing Rebecca in garden shed. Joanne puts Moran I awkward position- set yep for accusation of seduction. Conway trusted M to get info from J’s girls…not going with Mackey’s badmouthing.
Becca cornered into knowing, starts watching Selena, sees phone.Feels need to make foursome “pure” again by offering sacrifice, but doesn’t know which Colm boy it is. Arranges meeting with Chris.

"Teenage girls make Moriarty look like a babe in the woods."
Gemma warns Julia of how Chris Harper is using Selena; J finds S's cell phone, texts C to meet her in grove, takes condom with her.
Mackey plays Conway against Moran, telling her of Moran's history of using other detectives. Moran essentially off the case. While waiting to be driven home, Moran called over by Joanne's group. Only future is in Cold Cases.

Interesting interplay between police supposition & actual occurrence in alternating chapters. Girls chapters begin with countdown to Chris Harper’s life. Difference between witness/suspect-solicitor. Ghost nun story. Pact to not mess with Colm boys. People want to belong. Need to make a family if yours doesn’t work.

Karsten first treated as hero; interviews by Rotherham; considered traitor when tells POW that war is lost.
Esther tells Mrs. Roberts it’s Rhys’s baby. Welsh courtship for couples who couldn’t afford to marry sharing a bed. Given Mrs R’s ring.
Cynefin: sense of place, passed from mother’s and daughters.
“Fear will make you believe anything.” (Hess)
K, seeing Holocaust film,: “and I was ashamed of surrender.”

Becca bolder, swipes key from nurses' office and girls go to cypress grove. Joanne catches them creeping back in; blackmails them into giving her the key, Type of "electric" karma causes lights to turn off/on and the key to burn Jo's hand without leaving a mark.
Text leads detectives to 4th level common room book. Detectives act as team.
Julia is molested. Groups makes pact to not date while at school.

Mean girls at an exclusive, religious boarding school; counterpoint clique of 4 girls and testosterone-fueled boys at near-by boys school
Prior death of one of the boys; found on St. Kilda's grounds. Suspects but no arrests for murder. Boy's picture found on school board, the Secret Place. Case reopened.

With Mary, E goes to Liverpool to abort baby. Doctor overwhelmed by war casualties and no longer performs. First train ride; wears Mary’s clothes-a disguise
E learns that M&Harry together and H is a Jew.
Caernevon Castle built for English to put down rebellion. Wales the first colony
Interrogated fo K seen at the Pub. There to interrogate K.
Tells A about pregnancy. Names Rhys as father. Jim overhears.

K: escape as complicated as surrender. Tries to float to Ireland. Boat sinks. Ends up sleeping in a bunker, returns to farm.
Cynefin- sheep know their home - passed from ewe to daughter.
E tells of dishonor; K tells her to keep it
K surrenders to Jim
E: was all her recklessness a desire to be caught red-handed; now a hero.

Rotherham’s conversation with Hess to determine if he is sane. Hess claims amnesia as to why he flew to G.B.
Wales history: Britons retreated there when Romans invaded; Churchill planned to fight from there if Germans retreated. Scene with Bull in a field-metaphor?
K escapes,is fed by E w/o A’s knowledge. Follows A from mine.
Pub back to locals-Guards busy with hunt for K.

K speaks with E after boys teach POWs foul language. Makes toys for Jim who reacts negatively when announcement comes that Rhys is MIA presumed dead.; village now part of war. Asks is K a coward “Cowards don’t get taken prisoner, just run away.”
E is pregnant and now feels “she might really have been raped.
Description of how to ‘now ewes were mounted - red riddle on rams’ bellies and legs,
Arthur in mine w/art

3 major characters: Rotheram, Esther, Karsten in Snowdonia, Wales. Rotheram assigned to interview Hess.
Karsten voluntarily surrenders on D-day and taken to POW camp. Esther raped by English sapper building camp. Welsh resent that English put Germans there.
Strong secondary characters -- Arthur, Jim, Jack, Mary & Harry.
Karsten's letters to mom: who's protecting whom as each "idealize" their situation.

See previous update

Brunetti receives medical report from Dr. Peters on young boy's rash; Cause: PCBs but told was something else.
Patta tells B to back Viscardi's art theft; B thinks it is a set up.
Abrogiani & B visit Lake Barci - finds military toxic dump -- Gamberretto contracts with US. Comes from Germany bases and used to be shipped to Africa; no longer accepting.
B asks father-in-law for help in cleaning up dump

During Most Serene Republic, Doge annually tossed gold ring into Grand Canal; symbolized marriage of city to waters.
Soto la neve, pane; sorta la pioggia, fame
Biloxi - in Bangladesh? No, America!
Brunetti warned off pursuing case of Sgt. Foster’s death by Patta.
Dr. Peters, Foster’s Commanding officer/lover, suspiciously od’s. Side story: robbery of arms merchant.

American soldier from nearby post found in canal, stabbed.
Some anti- American jabs: act as if they have a “sense of ownership;” like the Romans, they carry their schools with them;” “ What’s not to like? They’re friendly.”

Truth: Brendon making meth for Dublin group. Stole anhydrous from PJ. Donie told on B. Mart & Friends stole from B. Fight, B knocked out dead. "The way the world's after changing, it's not made right for them (rural lads). Now, too many things you want." Cal got back B's watch from B's mountain bog burial place for Trey.
Could have ended with Chapter 20

grinds: tutoring sessions.

Cal: Morals-what's right/wrong; not situational. Manners: treating people with respect. Develop code

Mart tells Cal that Trey (Theresa) is a girl; people will think the worst

Cal talks to Donie, advances Dublin drug theory. Brandon's cabin: evidence of meth lab, Tells Trey a story to stop her coming to see him. Villagers likes him again. Beaten by mom, Trey shows up on Cal's doorstep.

Cal meets with “group” at the pub and feels that he is being warned not to ask around about Brandon. Senses the same about Caroline, Brandon’s former girlfriend and Sheila, his mother. Cal feels that Mart wants everyone to know that he has been warned.
Cal gets his rifle, a Henry 22 lever-action, and begins to teach Trey to shoot