Another round of revisions on the story in progress. Still not quite ready to send it off. Maybe tomorrow, if I get a chance to read it through completely this evening.
The relationship between Gibbs and FBI agent Tobias Fornell is one of my favorites. They are antagonistic at times, because of the nature of their professions, but they are sort-of friends, tied together by the fact that Fornell (despite being warned about the possible dire consequences) married one of Gibbs’s ex-wives. This week, a potential witness asked the two men, in all innocence, if they’d ever been married, leading to the most priceless hangdog look on the two men’s faces I’ve ever seen. Worthy of a screen cap. In some ways they behave like a bickering couple. Fornell shows up with supper, except it’s from an Indian restaurant they’d previously decided they didn’t like. The reason: he had a two-for-one coupon. They both ended up eating cereal for supper. And, later, Fornell atones by making an Italian dinner from scratch. “Currying favor,” he called it, with barely an acknowledgement of the hideous pun.
How much sugar do you put in your coffee? I don’t drink coffee, but I always figured it was one lump or two. I recorded Sons of Anarchy last night, so I was able to review the scene where Jax is pouring a cup while waiting to see Gemma. He pours sugar for eight solid seconds. Not just a little dribble, either. A gusher of a stream of sugar. Made my teeth ache to watch him. Surely that must have been some sort of sight gag.
Did we know that Tara was pregnant? Seems like news to me. And I still believe that Trinny (Maureen’s daughter in the store in Belfast) is going to turn out to be Jax’s half sister. “Jax goes to Belfast, stones get unturned,” Clay said. It’s pretty clear that Jax’s father had an affair with Maureen. Chucky is another regular sight gag. “I accept that,” he said, repeating his blanket excuse for people disgusted by the affliction that led to his digital deficiency. The way Tigg jammed that clipboard into his hands in the warehouse made me wonder a) how he held onto it and b) what he was supposed to pretend to be doing with it.
I was sure Jax was going to eviscerate Stahl, but instead he brought her a present, all wrapped up with a bow: The Real IRA in northern California. He’s even on a first-name basis with her. I wonder how that’s going to work out.
