Day 27: Foreboding
"tell me everything i want to know about you, your group, and especially your ship, or you have to answer to my partner here: inspector hammer." inspector swan warns, brandishing an honest to god hammer as dan stares him down
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once upon a time, when i originally got the idea to redesign/update the land of the giants years ago, i had inspector swan as a subtle, manipulative, yet somehow charming agent of the SID. that he knew exactly what he was doing at all times and was paving his way to a spot on the supreme council with every encounter/assignment/wahey that came his way
the current USA administration, however, has made it abundantly clear that sometimes you can be as dumb as a bag of rocks but so long as you have connections and money, you can still have a government job/title
this particular scene would come during something i've dubbed "kobick's petty bitch" era, which would be somewhere between 2/3rds or 1/2 way through the second season, when he's starting to get tired of swan's flagrant incompetence at the job, and finds more and more reasons to let the idiot fail all on his own.
in this case, kobick interrupts the "interrogation" before it gets too far because he needed paperwork or something, only to have swan tell him "he doesn't care what he wants, he doesn't need his observations or help right now" (or something to that effect) and kobick takes him at his word. even tells him "if that's what you wish, swan, you'll not hear a word out of me". not even if kobick has spotted steve already on the table/desk behind swan and untying dan to rescue him. swan doesn't want to know, who was he to say? in fact, now's a good time for an early, extended lunch. at the new sandwich shop across town. on foot. and, silly him, kobick seems to have left his walkie talkie behind. would head of the secretary pool miss karna cheris please be sure to tell him if she finds it before he does? of course she will, she says, surreptitiously placing the shut-off walkie talkie in her desk drawer. he will be sure to get her a turkey club on rye in return for the favor
it goes without saying "inspector hammer" has never been successful when it comes to anything to do with the spindrift crew or little people in general
(swan is bad at his job and hasn't lost it yet only because he hasn't fucked up enough his senator uncle's influence couldn't "fix" it)
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for those unaware, i am Full On Some Land of the Giants Bullshit and this year's Gt July theme will be related to the LotG Series Bible project i have been picking away at for a proposed remake/reboot of the show
