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Encyclopedia Americana - K (Memorial Library)

Potential IRL read-a-likes:

Oh, what's this? A Jake Rogers ask in my inbox?? 👀🤩 Don't mind if I do!!!

To tell you the truth, I don't often headcanon for characters unless said headcanons are based on crumbs from within the text itself. Given how little we know about Jake I don't have a TON for him, but here's what I do have (and am, consequently, very attached to because I happen to love this sick and twisted scumbag king):

1. He was quite a tech guru generally- not just limited to using a video camera. His video of Hal in the library is coming from an overhead view - could Jake just be filming from the stairs? Sure, but that's a long time to stand around in the library unnoticed. My headcanon is that we're seeing video that Jake pulled from the school's security cameras after hacking into them. This is in addition to Jake wiring up his own cameras inside the lockers of Connie and Hulk (SCK2, but ya get the point).

2. Jake was very lackadaisical with his schoolwork, rarely gave it his all, and blackmailed others to do it for him... but he had one of the highest IQs in all of Paseo del Mar.

3. Jake physically was a taallllll, lanky, dark-featured, shadowy figure, just like his role in the story. And before anyone comes at me with the description given by the security guard in this report:

I have two words for your consideration. Connie Watson. (her backpack was found at the school that night! Have fun piecing together that untold story!)

AUSTIN CASTS #1 (Secrets Can Kill Remastered)

MOVIE CAST:

-Manny Jacinto as Hal Tanaka

-Sophia Lillis as Connie Watson (GASP! Not ND!)

-Charles Melton as Hector “Hulk” Sanchez

-Kenton Duty as Daryl Gray

-Tom Hanks as Detective Beech (I went there. It’s his voice)

-Kennedy McMann as Nancy Drew (How can I not)

What do I change/add?

Mitch Dillon does not make an appearance. The culprit makes him do it, but it is offscreen. He does not call or interact with ND.

Jake Rogers does not get pushed down the stairs. It’s a bit more brutal. (This was 1999 video games. The stairs had to do back then, but this is a 2020 movie). Jake is found strangled inside his locker.

We are still in Florida and still at Aunt Eloise’s HOWEVER Nancy goes to classes and pretends to date Daryl. Nancy also becomes a cheerleader.

We end with a prom in which Nancy tells Daryl about Ned and the two break it off.

The culprit is the same as the game.

BROADWAY MUSICAL CAST:

-Kelvin Moon Loh as Hal Tanaka

What the fuck does “Follow the X to the spot below!” in the book in Eloise’s house refer to?

The whole teachers lounge thing is so anticlimactic when you just have to get a key from Eloise’s house instead of cutting a god damn hole in the school window

Tbh all the students of the month look...Exactly. like people who play Nancy Drew games

Tried to go in the teacher’s lounge and Connie legit called Nancy out by name. Bitch I haven’t even met you yet.

If Paseo Del Mar being out of control means 4 whole students existing in the building, I’d hate to be here on a slow day

Still never told the girl my name, yet she somehow still knows it.

Hal legit hedges all of my questions. He doesn’t answer jack shit.

Hulk may be tall, dark, and handsome, but he’s no Mr. Tall Dork and Handsome

The dialogue in this game needed some serious work. The conversations are hella choppy and awkward.

Bitch. You are supposed to be undercover. You can’t just show up and start asking how to get into the murdered kid’s locker.

Why is the library music so damn intense

I love that Grenny and the Water Fairy is consistently checked out

Now that I’ve spent 20 minutes looking shit up in the library catalogue, I can move on with my life

HeR named Hulk Hector because it sounds like Hectinol, change my mind

Bold of HeR to discuss impotence in a Nancy Drew game

Jake Rogers 100% knew he was in danger of getting murdered and tbh that makes me kinda sad

I’m never going to not be mad that we can’t “I am a Donut”

That fucking STFD alarm gave me a god damn heart attack

What’s that, Daryl? You don’t want to think about finding Jake’s body? Let’s talk about something more cheerful. How about getting rejected by Connie

What’s that, Hulk? You’re tired of talking about Jake? Let’s talk about something more cheerful. How about the robbery at the drug pharmacy

This might be the most useless Ned has ever been in a game.

This game has like. One puzzle exactly.

Nancy is damn fortunate that Beech didn’t bring her over to the safe with him and make her put in the code.