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Journals: Book 1, Entry 13 “Blue Agave” Quatrain 32, Century 5: "Pillars of light will fall with serpents coiled in their heads / Twelve Lords and Ladies of the Empire will be devoured by the darkness or spared by the fruit of golden hue" After months on the run, a strange thing happens. The old life you knew slowly slips away until it finally ceases to be real. You start to think about it like a favorite book. Your closest friends turn into characters who'll never come to life again. Oor at least that's what I thought. My wife’s best friend, Susan Tannen, just won the Pillar of Light Award, an honor given annually for excellence in investment and finance. I wondered if the aliens were targeting the mavericks and mavens of Wall Street. If Susan was one of the "pillars" in Nostradamus’ prediction, then my past and my present were about to collide… Susan was shocked to hear my voice when I called. Came as no surprise considering I’m wanted for murder. But Susan knew how Hannah and I felt about each other. I didn’t have to convince her I was innocent. She told me to stop running. With her money and connections, she could put me in touch with the best defense attorney in town, Frankie Salvo. They say Salvo’s the guy Johnnie Cochran would call in a jam. Susan took me to a very exclusive night club called the Royal Room to meet Salvo. The friendliest hostess I’d ever met told me I could have anything on…or off the menu. Figured she wasn’t talking about the wine list either. Susan didn’t try to hide anything about the club – getting to the top of Wall Street doesn’t allow time for dating or relationships. The club provides companionship for people like her: wealthy and lonely. Met Frankie Salvo at the bar while Susan went off to dance with a guy named Grant. Salvo seemed confident about appealing my case. First good news I’d had in ages, but the warm and fuzzies didn’t last long. Salvo took a shot of tequila and promptly doubled over. The bartender called the paramedics. Trying to help Salvo, I noticed something crawling out of his ear – it was a small slimy worm. Took the worm for Eddie to analyze. The next day, the papers reported Salvo had died in a car accident. There was a lot more going on in that club, and they were trying to cover it up. The Royal Room was chock full of the city’s power players. My gut said the aliens were involved here, and it was easy pickins for them. That meant Susan was in danger. It crossed my mind that I was also in the line of fire now. Did they slip one of those creepy-crawlies into my head, too? Eddie’s analysis of the worm showed it was composed of human nerve cells – like brain tissue. We speculated that the worms were absorbing nerve signals from the victim’s brain. But why? When a clone of Susan Tannen showed up, the picture got a lot clearer. The aliens could duplicate people’s bodies, and now they had the means to duplicate their memories, too. The real Susan was in deep. Hell, we all were if the aliens succeeded. Where was it gonna stop? The Gua steal our lives, and they steal our bodies, too. Now I had to figure out how to stop these maggots from stealing our very souls… “Blue Agave” Writer: L. Venosta & D. Darmstaedter Director: Brad Turner Executive Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Larry Sugar Created by: Chris Brancato Guest Stars: Rachel Hayward as Susan Tannen, David Fredericks as Frank DeSalvo, Peter Flemming, Claudette Mink, Johnathan Walker. |
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