>I'm still holding out hope that if this does end up being the Green
>Lantern Corps, that the uniform will be the version from Hal Jordan's
>Green Lantern Marine Corps from the unintentionally hilarious
>Superman: Red Son.

I was disappointed by what pussies the GLs were in that, but they did have a pretty cool-looking uniform.

>>Another Interesting Fact About Working On Alderaan
>
>Again, dayum. I guess having a assload of Jedi crawling around can't
>even put a damper on the action on Alderaan: Wretched Hive of Scum
>And Villany.

Actually, it's quite a pleasant hive of scum and villainy, as these things go. The thing about the Jedi Order is that, though they have a giant temple in the nice part of Aldera, it's in the nice part of Aldera, and they're not cops, per se, so they don't have a lot to do with the day-to-day policing of the rest of the planet. Their organization primarily looks outward rather than inward, as it were. They have been known to help out the Royal Alderaan Constabulary with various matters, but only when they're asked to by the local authorities, who are historically reluctant to involve them in anything smaller than, say, a terrorist plot to blow up the city. (And, as it happened, Horatio and his people handled that without much help. He doesn't look it, but the guy's a one-man SWAT team. It's uncanny. The day shift in New Avalon is going to find working for him a fascinating adjustment after Ecklie's "field work is for the weak" leadership style. :)

>it was one plain clothes cop
>and a criminalist going to apprehend a terrorist who was the driving
>force behind that nights crapfest. Not even kicking the lounge couch
>to see if a couple blue suiters fell out?

Well, apart from the fact that the lounge couch didn't have anybody in it, this is attributable to fatigue as much as anything else. These guys have had a long last few days. Besides, Brass is a good cop, but he has a few blind spots, and one of them is that he's just not the sort of guy who would be inclined to take someone like Clarissa entirely seriously at first. Sure, she might be high up in the local Big Fire hierarchy, but on the other hand, she's a 19-year-old former debutante. From Brass's perspective, this would be a little like being told that one of the Hilton sisters was running the local al-Qaeda cell. You might believe it says that on paper, but, I mean, what?

Fortunately, that's the kind of mistake Brass only makes once about any given suspect.

From an out-of-story standpoint, there's also a simple question of structure. Technically you're right - for an apprehension like this, the Chief probably should've found somebody, or even gone along himself - but that would have gotten in the way.

--G.
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